Texanites

Texanites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TexanitinaePBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 85 of 85 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 13 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 22 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 22 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya83.6 Mya94.4 Mya71.7 Mya

85 occurrences of Texanites 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

85 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

24 formations

Umzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°EAustin Chalk — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAustin Chalk — 29.12°N, 100.71°WAustin Chalk — 29.82°N, 98.30°WAustin Chalk — 32.59°N, 96.81°WTexanitid Marls — 42.17°N, 0.90°ENiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.79°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 38.27°N, 104.61°WHinoshima — 32.47°N, 130.47°EMungo River — 4.50°N, 9.49°EEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.49°WEutaw — 32.36°N, 86.34°WUpper Haborogawa — 44.27°N, 141.75°EBavnodde Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.75°ESt Lucia — 27.88°S, 32.42°ESt Lucia — 28.69°S, 32.02°EBaba — 14.26°S, 12.36°ESaint Lucia — 28.38°S, 32.42°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°EPodega — 42.17°N, 0.90°EAwgu Ndeaboh Shale — 6.05°N, 7.47°EHonna — 53.23°N, 132.00°WCelendín — 6.87°S, 78.15°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.35°WMerchantville — 39.55°N, 75.71°WMexcala — 18.02°N, 99.15°WArimao — 22.15°N, 80.45°WCalcaires à Lima — 42.91°N, 2.35°ELogbadjeck — 3.92°N, 10.04°ERedding — 40.63°N, 122.12°W

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The named rock units Texanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Texanites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Texanites, 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

37 references

Each of the 85 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 Texanites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTexanitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1932)