Scaphites

Searched as Scaphites delicatulus sloani. The Paleobiology Database treats Scaphites as the accepted name.

Scaphites is a genus of heteromorph ammonites belonging to the Scaphitidae family. They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period.

Scaphites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphitinaePBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Scaphites 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

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.

Found in

1 formation

Carlile Shale — 45.19°N, 96.75°W

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The named rock units Scaphites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Scaphites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,496 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 335 sites for Scaphites, and this reads 240 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 Scaphites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itScaphitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parkinson 1811)