Ammobaculites

Ammobaculites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmomarginulininaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 351 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 656 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 38 of 656 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 22 of 656 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 5 of 656 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 20 of 656 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 30 of 656 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 79 of 656 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 87 of 656 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 47 of 656 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 239 of 656 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 47 of 656 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 656 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 656 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 656 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 656 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 656 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 656 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 3 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 19 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 13 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 7 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–256 Mya — about 8 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 13 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 23 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 4 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 3 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 19 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 34 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 97 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 40 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 34 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 78 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 127 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 10 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 36 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 17 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 14 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 10 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 18 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences351.9 Mya129 ka366 Mya0 Mya

656 occurrences of Ammobaculites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

656 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

99 formations

Sundays River — 33.74°S, 25.60°ESundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.48°S, 25.56°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.79°S, 25.43°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°EWestgate — 51.58°N, 111.00°WWestgate — 53.00°N, 110.17°WCastillo Pedroso — 43.02°N, 4.17°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WKössen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.30°N, 21.00°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 22.75°N, 46.63°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 21.83°N, 46.13°EHanifa — 21.08°N, 45.68°EDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EKcynia — 52.37°N, 19.34°ECamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EArgiles de Lamoriciere — 34.90°N, 1.03°W

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The named rock units Ammobaculites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 181 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ammobaculites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,791 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 426 sites for Ammobaculites, and this reads 240 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

136 references

Each of the 656 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. 124 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 Ammobaculites

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ammobaculites 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 itAmmomarginulininae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1910