Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras)PBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Gaudryceras5 sites
- Baculites kirki3 sites
- Hoploscaphites3 sites
- Menuites3 sites
- Eubostrychoceras2 sites
- Neophylloceras2 sites
- Scalarites2 sites
- Scaphites2 sites
- Tetragonites2 sites
- Adelodonax tectus1 site
- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Baculites capensis1 site
- Brunonia1 site
- Califadesma elafium1 site
- Damesites1 site
- Damesites semicostatus1 site
- Elasmosaurus1 site
- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denmanense1 site
- Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) tenuliratum ornata1 site
- Gyrodes (Sohlella) banites1 site
- Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) angustum1 site
- Hyphantoceras1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Kitchinites (Neopuzosia)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum, 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- Asociaciones de amonites de la formacion Santa Marta (Cretacio Tardio), Isla James Ross, Antartida3
- Preliminary report on the Cretaceous reptile fossils from Hokkaido1
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III1
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopods of Japan, Part I1
Each of the 6 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.
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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 Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) obstrictum 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 itPolyptychoceras (Polyptychoceras) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jimbo 1894)