Menuites

Menuites is a genus of extinct ammonites, forming a rather small offshoot of Anapachydiscus with a fairly widespread distribution from the Upper Cretaceous Santonian and Campanian stages.

Menuites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachydiscidaePBDB
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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 123 of 123 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 123 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

123 occurrences of Menuites 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

123 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.

Found in

38 formations

Santa Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSanta Marta — 64.23°S, 56.62°WSanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WMiria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.96°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.92°S, 114.10°EMiria — 22.83°S, 114.14°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.26°EChinomigawa — 42.18°N, 142.78°EChinomigawa — 42.91°N, 142.42°EPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.25°WPierre Shale — 43.62°N, 103.23°WPanoche — 37.35°N, 121.21°WPanoche — 36.72°N, 120.78°WPanoche — 36.82°N, 120.80°WPanoche — 35.87°N, 120.28°WHidden Lake — 63.00°S, 57.00°WHidden Lake — 63.75°S, 58.00°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 73.06°WQuiriquina — 36.73°S, 73.14°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WDanish White Chalk — 57.05°N, 8.70°EDanish White Chalk — 57.00°N, 9.30°EDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°EMatanuska — 61.92°N, 147.62°WMatanuska — 61.99°N, 146.96°WKrasnoyarka — 48.68°N, 142.66°EAnnona — 33.77°N, 93.92°WAnnona — 33.80°N, 94.06°WCraie de Valognes — 49.43°N, 1.35°WCraie de Valognes — 49.52°N, 1.47°WMoreno — 36.22°N, 120.12°WMoreno — 36.99°N, 120.93°WRosario — 29.58°N, 115.24°WRosario — 32.41°N, 117.09°WNay — 43.20°N, 0.39°WParras — 26.75°N, 103.17°WParras — 25.73°N, 101.31°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°EMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WCalcaire de Kunraed — 50.88°N, 5.75°EWilliams — 33.71°N, 117.71°WOhimisaki — 45.52°N, 141.94°ELewis Shale — 36.46°N, 106.84°W

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The named rock units Menuites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Menuites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Menuites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

623 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Menuites, 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

54 references

Each of the 123 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. 42 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Menuites

Credit
Daderot
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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 and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPachydiscidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922