Virgatosphinctes

Virgatosphinctes

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
VirgatosphinctinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 53 of 54 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 54 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 6 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 6 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 6 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 6 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 6 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 7 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 7 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya143.1 Mya162 Mya136.6 Mya

54 occurrences of Virgatosphinctes 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

54 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

16 formations

Spiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°ESpiti Shale — 32.42°N, 78.08°ELa Caja — 23.62°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.60°N, 100.89°WBanos del Flaco — 35.01°S, 70.43°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.55°WHajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°EHajar — 14.33°N, 48.38°EShuomo — 28.08°N, 86.00°EPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WAmeghino — 63.85°S, 58.07°WHauberg Mountains — 65.95°S, 60.55°WArtemisa — 22.78°N, 83.25°WLatady — 75.67°S, 66.50°WLatady — 75.88°S, 68.83°WHimalia Ridge — 70.75°S, 68.50°WNaifa — 14.28°N, 48.55°EBhuj — 23.63°N, 68.95°EGory Neveb — 44.18°N, 39.20°EAgardhfjellet — 78.08°N, 18.86°E

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The named rock units Virgatosphinctes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Virgatosphinctes and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Virgatosphinctes, 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

23 references

Each of the 54 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. 11 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 Virgatosphinctes

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 Virgatosphinctes 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Uhlig 1910)