Hyphoplites curvatus

Hyphoplites curvatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyphoplitesPBDB
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 most 20 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113.7 Mya93.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Hyphoplites curvatus on record, most of them in the Late 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

23 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

11 formations

Upper Greensand — 50.80°N, 2.67°WUpper Greensand — 50.78°N, 2.63°WAitamir — 36.20°N, 60.83°EAitamir — 36.13°N, 60.58°EAitamir — 36.23°N, 60.40°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.20°N, 2.18°WSaint Jouin — 49.65°N, 0.17°ESaint Jouin — 49.55°N, 0.12°ECalcaires de Fiz — 46.04°N, 6.62°ECalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.79°EGlauconitic Marl — 52.33°N, 2.28°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.75°N, 2.33°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°ESables du Lamnay — 48.60°N, 0.63°EMarnes Bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.22°N, 5.53°E

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The named rock units Hyphoplites curvatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyphoplites curvatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hyphoplites curvatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Hyphoplites curvatus, 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

11 references

Each of the 23 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 content1

Picture of Hyphoplites curvatus

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

No 3D scan of Hyphoplites curvatus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

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What may have been alongside itHyphoplites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mantell 1822)