Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense
Not Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense. This is Hypophylloceras hetonaiense (Matsumoto, 1942), a relative — both are Phylloceratidae.
J. Hoel, W. P. Popenoe · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeophyllocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
26 occurrences of Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense 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
26 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Matanuska Formation13
- Quiriquina Formation4
- Moreno Formation · Great Valley Group4
- Shimonada Formation2
- Kaguyak Formation1
- Seidan Formation1
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The named rock units Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Inoceramus subundatus9 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum6 sites
- Gaudryceras tenuiliratum6 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum6 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra6 sites
- Zelandites varuna6 sites
- Anagaudryceras mikobokense4 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus4 sites
- Gaudryceras seymouriense4 sites
- Anagaudryceras subtilineatum3 sites
- Baculites anceps3 sites
- Baculites huenickeni3 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) erbeni3 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) gutierrezi3 sites
- Patagiosites alaskensis3 sites
- Baculites occidentalis2 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides2 sites
- Didymoceras hornbyense2 sites
- Diplomoceras2 sites
- Fresvillia teres2 sites
- Grossouvrites joharae2 sites
- Gunnarites bhavaniformis2 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) inflatum2 sites
- Kitchinites darwini2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense, 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
6 references- Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska14
- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile4
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) ammonites from Awaji Island, southwest Japan3
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III3
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results1
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land1
Each of the 26 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 Hypophylloceras hetonaiense (Matsumoto, 1942)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- J. Hoel, W. P. Popenoe
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNeophylloceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matsumoto 1942)