Kitchinites spathi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KitchinitesPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Kitchinites spathi 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
18 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Kitchinites spathi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kitchinites spathi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Kitchinites spathi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Gunnarites kalika18 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra16 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides15 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya14 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum14 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus10 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus10 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis10 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei9 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis9 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum8 sites
- Maorites densicostatus7 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis7 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus7 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum6 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus5 sites
- Brahmaites (Brahmaites) kossmati4 sites
- Gunnarites raggatti4 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum4 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) brunnschweileri4 sites
- Anagaudryceras subtilineatum3 sites
- Eubaculites simplex3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum3 sites
- Eubaculites latecarinatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Kitchinites spathi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 18 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Kitchinites spathi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kitchinites spathi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kitchinites spathi 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 itKitchinites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henderson and McNamara 1985