Subalpinites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeocomitinaePBDB
- 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 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 141 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 132.6 Mya.
23 occurrences of Subalpinites 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
23 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
6 formations
- Miravetes Formation9
- Szentivánhegy Limestone Formation7
- Latimusa Formation1
- Tollo Formation1
- Springhill Formation1
- Shal Formation1
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The named rock units Subalpinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Subalpinites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Subalpinites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Fauriella boissieri10 sites
- Tirnovella alpillensis9 sites
- Neolissoceras grasianum8 sites
- Calpionellopsis7 sites
- Remaniella7 sites
- Tintinnopsella7 sites
- Berriasella calisto6 sites
- Calcicalathina6 sites
- Lorenziella5 sites
- Protancyloceras5 sites
- Rucinolithus wisei5 sites
- Spiticeras5 sites
- Thurmanniceras5 sites
- Tirnovella5 sites
- Olcostephanus4 sites
- Berriasella3 sites
- Berriasellinae3 sites
- Calpionella alpina3 sites
- Duvalia lata3 sites
- Kilianella3 sites
- Neocosmoceras3 sites
- Speetonia colligata3 sites
- Spiticeras multiforme3 sites
- Duvalia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Subalpinites, 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
7 references- The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain9
- Integrated isotope and biostratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous section from the Bakony Mountains (Transdanubian Range, Hungary): A new Tethyan record of the Weissert event7
- Lower Cretaceous ammonites from Colombia, South America3
- Early Berriasian ammonites from Shal, Talesh region (NW Alborz Mountains, Iran)1
- The Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Rosso Ammonitico succession of Monte Inici (Trapanese Domain, western Sicily): sedimentology, biostratigraphy and isotope stratigraphy1
- Los ammonites del transito Berriasense-Valanginiense en la region de Cehegin (Prov. de Murcia, SE de España)1
- Berriasian invertebrate fauna from the Springhill Formation of Southern Patagonia1
Each of the 23 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 Subalpinites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Subalpinites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNeocomitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mazenot 1939