Menabites (Delawarella)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MenabitesPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Menabites (Delawarella) 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
29 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
7 formations
- Merchantville Formation · Matawan Group12
- Ozan Formation4
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group3
- Gober Chalk Formation · Austin Group3
- Parras Formation1
- Polány Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Menabites (Delawarella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Menabites (Delawarella) and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Menabites (Delawarella) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
209 taxa- Placenticeras placenta9 sites
- Scaphites hippocrepis7 sites
- Cucullaea5 sites
- Glycymeris4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Anchura3 sites
- Anomia argentaria3 sites
- Baculites3 sites
- Baculites haresi3 sites
- Camptonectes3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Euspira halli3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras3 sites
- Granocardium tenuistriatum3 sites
- Gyrodes petrosus3 sites
- Nemodon3 sites
- Paranomia scabra3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Anatimya anteradiata2 sites
- Baculites ovatus2 sites
- Callianassa mortoni2 sites
- Cerithiella2 sites
- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Menabites (Delawarella), 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- Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware7
- Campanian Trachyscaphites spiniger ammonite fauna in north-east Texas4
- Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from northern Aquitaine, France4
- Campanian ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous Gober Chalk of Lamar County, Texas3
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi3
- New ammonoid records from the Merchantville Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Maryland and New Jersey2
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary2
- Remains of a sea turtle from the Austin Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian), Coahuila, Mexico1
- An endemic cephalopod assemblage from the Lower Campanian (Late Cretaceous) Parras Shale, western Coahuila, Mexico1
- Campanian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from Sümeg (Transdanubian Central Range, Hungary)1
- An Upper Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Delaware1
Each of the 29 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
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No picture of Menabites (Delawarella) 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 Menabites (Delawarella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Menabites (Delawarella) 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 itMenabites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Collignon 1948)