Kilianella crassiplicata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KilianellaPBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Kilianella crassiplicata 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
6 occurrences- Early 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kilianella crassiplicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kilianella crassiplicata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Kilianella crassiplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Lytoceras saturnale2 sites
- Aucella nuciformia1 site
- Buchia crassicollis1 site
- Buchia pacifica1 site
- Paskentites paskentaensis1 site
- Polyptychites1 site
- Simbirskites broadi1 site
- Thurmannia paskentae1 site
- Thurmanniceras californicum1 site
- Thurmanniceras jenkinsi1 site
- Thurmanniceras stippi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kilianella crassiplicata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Ammonites from the Buchia zones in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon2
- Ammonites of Early Cretaceous age (Valanginian and Hauterivian) from the Pacific Coast states2
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results1
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Kilianella crassiplicata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kilianella crassiplicata 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 itKilianella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stanton 1895)