Sphenodiscus pleurisepta

No picture of Sphenodiscus pleurisepta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenodiscus pleurisepta itself, so it was not used. 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 Sphenodiscus pleurisepta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenodiscusPBDB
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 28 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 62 of 62 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 62 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 10 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 10 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 10 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

62 occurrences of Sphenodiscus pleurisepta 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

62 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

12 formations

Escondido — 29.39°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.28°WEscondido — 29.18°N, 99.66°WEscondido — 29.11°N, 99.82°WEscondido — 29.10°N, 99.88°WEscondido — 28.87°N, 100.16°WEscondido — 28.97°N, 100.24°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.47°WEscondido — 28.59°N, 100.40°WEscondido — 28.53°N, 100.32°WEscondido — 28.60°N, 100.25°WEscondido — 28.61°N, 100.14°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WFox Hills — 40.62°N, 104.82°WFox Hills — 40.44°N, 104.86°WFox Hills — 43.36°N, 104.26°WFox Hills — 43.25°N, 104.29°WFox Hills — 43.18°N, 104.35°WFox Hills — 44.26°N, 102.38°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.54°WCorsicana Marl — 33.15°N, 96.04°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 37.01°N, 89.85°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.85°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.51°N, 88.93°WEscondido — 28.23°N, 100.22°WEscondido — 27.53°N, 103.17°WFox Hills Sandstone — 40.53°N, 107.75°WFox Hills Sandstone — 40.15°N, 105.02°WKemp Clay — 29.42°N, 98.49°WSevern — 38.91°N, 76.86°WPierre Shale — 40.17°N, 104.99°WMexcala — 18.17°N, 98.94°W

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

Sphenodiscus pleurisepta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Sphenodiscus pleurisepta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Sphenodiscus pleurisepta, 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

10 references

Each of the 62 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 Sphenodiscus pleurisepta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenodiscus pleurisepta itself, so it was not used.

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 Sphenodiscus pleurisepta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenodiscus pleurisepta 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 itSphenodiscus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1857)