Parahoplites melchioris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParahoplitesPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Parahoplites melchioris 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Parahoplites melchioris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parahoplites melchioris and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Parahoplites melchioris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acanthohoplites2 sites
- Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis1 site
- Ancyloceras matheronianum1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cheloniceras buxtorfi1 site
- Colombiceras (Colombiceras) tobleri1 site
- Diadochoceras1 site
- Discoides1 site
- Douvilleiceras1 site
- Dufrenoyia1 site
- Dufrenoyia justinae1 site
- Entobia1 site
- Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi1 site
- Gastrochaenolites1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gervillia solenoidea1 site
- Grammatodon1 site
- Hamites tropicalis1 site
- Levashidromites cornutus1 site
- Melchiorites1 site
- Mesohibolites semicanaliculatus1 site
- Neocomites1 site
- Noelmorrisia fittoni1 site
- Parahoplites multicostatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Parahoplites melchioris, 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
4 references- New Cretaceous crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura) from Moscow Oblast and Dagestan (Russia): patterns in phylogeny and morphospace of the oldest eubrachyurans (Dorippoidea)1
- Parahoplitid ammonites and narrowing down the Aptian/Albian boundary interval in northern Iran1
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Parahoplites melchioris 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 Parahoplites melchioris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parahoplites melchioris 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 itParahoplites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anthula 1899