Hyphoplites

Hyphoplites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HoplitinaePBDB
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 5.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 56 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 49 of 56 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence106.3 Mya100.5 Mya113.7 Mya93.4 Mya

56 occurrences of Hyphoplites on record. 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

56 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

14 formations

Marnes bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°EMarnes bleues — 43.88°N, 6.86°ESaint Jouin — 49.65°N, 0.17°ESaint Jouin — 49.55°N, 0.12°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.20°N, 2.18°WGlauconitic Marl — 52.33°N, 2.28°WCalcaires de Fiz — 46.04°N, 6.62°ECalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.79°EAitamir — 36.20°N, 60.83°EAitamir — 36.13°N, 60.58°EAitamir — 36.23°N, 60.40°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.75°N, 2.33°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 2.67°WUpper Greensand — 50.78°N, 2.63°WPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°ESables du Lamnay — 48.60°N, 0.63°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.22°N, 5.53°ELower Chalk — 50.78°N, 2.63°WSables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°W

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The named rock units Hyphoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Hyphoplites, 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

16 references

Each of the 56 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Hyphoplites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922