Hypacanthoplites elegans

No picture of Hypacanthoplites elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hypacanthoplites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HypacanthoplitesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya93.9 Mya122 Mya89.2 Mya

15 occurrences of Hypacanthoplites elegans on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

15 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.93°N, 6.25°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°ECouches du Freu — 45.82°N, 6.27°ESanganeh — 36.83°N, 59.93°ETata Limestone — 47.65°N, 18.31°ESandrock — 50.62°N, 1.17°W

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The named rock units Hypacanthoplites elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hypacanthoplites elegans and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Hypacanthoplites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

188 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Hypacanthoplites elegans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

7 references

Each of the 15 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Hypacanthoplites elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hypacanthoplites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHypacanthoplites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fritel 1906)