Watinoceras

Watinoceras

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
AcanthoceratinaePBDB
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 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 72 of 73 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 9 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 14 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 14 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 14 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 14 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences100.5 Mya93.9 Mya113.7 Mya89.3 Mya

73 occurrences of Watinoceras 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

73 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

18 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 32.76°N, 108.57°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.61°S, 36.95°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WGreenhorn Limestone — 34.99°N, 103.40°WLa Frontera — 2.89°N, 75.68°WLa Frontera — 4.54°N, 74.45°WMungo River — 4.55°N, 9.53°EMungo River — 4.50°N, 9.49°ESecond White Speckled Shale — 55.88°N, 120.00°WSecond White Speckled Shale — 55.82°N, 118.37°WAgua Nueva — 26.66°N, 100.02°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.35°WEze-Aku — 6.00°N, 7.47°ESlater River — 64.90°N, 125.58°WGreenhorn — 40.22°N, 105.27°WGreenhorn — 45.77°N, 96.64°WBlackstone — 52.36°N, 116.25°WBlackstone — 52.38°N, 115.41°WColorado — 32.52°N, 107.68°WColorado — 32.70°N, 108.60°WKaskapau — 55.95°N, 122.12°WIndidura — 29.35°N, 101.05°WBrießnitz — 51.05°N, 13.69°ESeabee — 69.25°N, 153.82°WTropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.65°W

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The named rock units Watinoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Watinoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Watinoceras, 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

27 references

Each of the 73 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. 15 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 content2

Picture of Watinoceras

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warren 1930