Acanthoceras rhotomagense

Acanthoceras rhotomagense

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
AcanthocerasPBDB
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 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 48 of 48 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101 Mya93.4 Mya

48 occurrences of Acanthoceras rhotomagense 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

48 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

17 formations

Ferriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 50.73°N, 0.20°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.77°N, 2.57°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.91°N, 0.02°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.86°N, 0.07°EAitamir — 36.62°N, 60.07°EAitamir — 36.98°N, 59.68°ECraie de Rouen — 48.80°N, 0.00°ECraie de Rouen — 49.08°N, 0.50°ECraie Glauconieuse — 49.08°N, 0.50°ETheligny Chalk — 49.57°N, 0.97°EBrochterbeck — 52.22°N, 7.75°EArnager Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.80°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.22°N, 5.53°EOdukpani — 5.19°N, 8.27°EKerabi — 6.63°S, 144.07°EIeru — 5.13°S, 141.21°EDosante — 42.97°N, 3.69°WHibernian Greensands — 54.81°N, 5.78°WFahdène — 35.35°N, 9.23°EKarai — 11.20°N, 79.09°E

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The named rock units Acanthoceras rhotomagense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthoceras rhotomagense and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Acanthoceras rhotomagense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Acanthoceras rhotomagense, 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

21 references

Each of the 48 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. 9 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 Acanthoceras rhotomagense

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1822)