Thomasites gongilensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThomasitesPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
28 occurrences of Thomasites gongilensis 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
28 occurrences- Late 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
8 formations
- Pindiga Formation8
- Dukul Formation7
- Gongila Formation2
- Mancos Shale Formation1
- Eze-Aku Formation1
- Natih Formation · Wasia Group1
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The named rock units Thomasites gongilensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thomasites gongilensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Thomasites gongilensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Pseudotissotia nigeriensis8 sites
- Thomasites wallsi7 sites
- Vascoceras globosum7 sites
- Paravascoceras tectiforme6 sites
- Costagyra olisiponensis5 sites
- Pseudovascoceras nigeriense5 sites
- Vascoceras bulbosum5 sites
- Vascoceras ellipticum5 sites
- Vascoceras proprium5 sites
- Gombeoceras gongilense tectiforme3 sites
- Mecaster3 sites
- Micropedina olisiponensis3 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras3 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras paganum3 sites
- Ampullospira bulbiformis2 sites
- Arctica globosa2 sites
- Astarte awensis2 sites
- Eotissotia simplex2 sites
- Gombeoceras gongilense costatum2 sites
- Gombeoceras gongilense inflatum2 sites
- Granocardium productum2 sites
- Pholadomya pedernalis2 sites
- Plicatula2 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Thomasites gongilensis, 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
11 references- Lower Turonian ammonites from north-eastern Nigeria17
- Les ammonites du Crétacé supérieur d'Ashaka, Nigéria: analyse taxonomique, ontogénétique, biostratigraphique et évolutive2
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona1
- Mid-Cretaceous ammonites and associated microfossils from the Central Oman Mountains1
- Lower Turonian (Cretaceous) ammonites from south-east Nigeria1
- The Cenomanian-Coniacian of Sergipe Basin, Brazil1
- The Geology of parts of Adamawa, Bauchi and Bornu Provinces in North-Eastern Nigeria1
- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons1
- New Turonian (Cretaceous) ammonite genera from Nigeria1
- Some new Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Nigeria1
- The palaeontology of the Upper Cretaceous deposits of northern Nigeria1
Each of the 28 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
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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 itThomasites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woods 1911)