Shasticrioceras whitneyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShasticriocerasPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Shasticrioceras whitneyi 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Shasticrioceras whitneyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Shasticrioceras whitneyi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Shasticrioceras whitneyi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Crioceratites1 site
- Hertleinites aguila1 site
- Hoplocrioceras remondi1 site
- Hypophylloceras onoense1 site
- Inoceramus ovatoides1 site
- Lytoceras1 site
- Lytoceras aulaeum1 site
- Myoconchia sp.1 site
- Shasticrioceras inflatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Shasticrioceras whitneyi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Geología del Área Vallenar-Domeyko, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 120: 64 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.0001
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the lower Chickabilly Mudstone (Barremian - Aptian) in the Ono Quadrangle, Northern California1
- Ammonites of Early Cretaceous age (Valanginian and Hauterivian) from the Pacific Coast states1
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon1
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 content1
Picture of Shasticrioceras whitneyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Shasticrioceras whitneyi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itShasticrioceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938