Megateuthis suevica

Megateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880, a relative of Megateuthis suevica — not Megateuthis suevica itself

Not Megateuthis suevica. This is Megateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880, a relative — both are Architeuthidae.

Cédric Bamberg · 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
MegateuthisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 8.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193.4 Mya183.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Megateuthis suevica on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

1 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.

Megateuthis suevica and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Megateuthis suevica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Megateuthis suevica, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content2

Picture of Megateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880

Source
GBIF
Credit
Cédric Bamberg
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMegateuthis through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Klein 1773)