Virgatites

Virgatites

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VirgatitidaePBDB
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 6.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 30 of 30 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 30 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–145 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149.7 Mya142.6 Mya

30 occurrences of Virgatites on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

30 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

1 formation

Agardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.89°E

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The named rock units Virgatites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Virgatites and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Virgatites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Virgatites, 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

Each of the 30 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Virgatites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Virgatites 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.

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What may have been alongside itVirgatitidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pavlow 1892