Acroteuthis

Acroteuthis is a genus of belemnite from the early Cretaceous of Asia, Europe, and North America.

Acroteuthis

Daderot · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
BelemnitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 118 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 117 of 118 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 6 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 10 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 10 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 10 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 10 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 10 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 10 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 10 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 9 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–125 Mya — about 4 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 6 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 6 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143.1 Mya119.57 Mya149.9 Mya112.5 Mya

118 occurrences of Acroteuthis on record, most of them in the Early 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

118 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

7 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.62°WMount Goodenough — 67.95°N, 135.41°WPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EBrokenback Hill — 49.55°N, 121.97°WUst'-Balyk — 63.83°N, 72.50°EStony Creek — 40.17°N, 122.69°W

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The named rock units Acroteuthis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acroteuthis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Acroteuthis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

327 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Acroteuthis, 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

17 references

Each of the 118 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. 5 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 Acroteuthis

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Stolley 1911