Anagaudryceras
Anagaudryceras is an extinct genus of ammonite from the later Cretaceous belonging to the Ammonoidea family Gaudryceratidae. Anagaudryceras has a moderately involute shell with a deep umbilicus and strongly ribbed outer whorl. Ribs are thick and rounded and cross over the venter uninterrupted.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaudryceratinaePBDB
- 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 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.
228 occurrences of Anagaudryceras 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
228 occurrencesThese 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
46 formations
- Haida Formation45
- Kennicott Formation17
- Mzinene Formation12
- Krasnoyarka Formation12
- Santa Marta Formation9
- Miria Formation9
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The named rock units Anagaudryceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anagaudryceras and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anagaudryceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
771 taxa- Inoceramus22 sites
- Aucellina19 sites
- Gaudryceras19 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra18 sites
- Brewericeras hulenense16 sites
- Leconteites deansi16 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus15 sites
- Ptychoceras laeve15 sites
- Leconteites14 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum13 sites
- Leconteites modestus13 sites
- Callizoniceras12 sites
- Tetragonites subtimotheanus12 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides11 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei11 sites
- Tetragonites11 sites
- Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) dawsoni10 sites
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) alamoense10 sites
- Moffitites robustus10 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum10 sites
- Puzosia10 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum9 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum9 sites
- Gunnarites kalika9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 209 sites for Anagaudryceras, 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
62 references- Ammonoids of the lower Cretaceous sandstone member of the Haida Formation, Skidgate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, western British Columbia25
- Stratigraphic investigations of the Cretaceous Queen Chartlotte Group, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia20
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae14
- New genera of early Cretaceous (Albian) Ammonites from Alaska13
- Late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Naiba area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East11
- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia10
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III9
- Stratigraphy and fossil assemblages of the Upper Cretaceous system in the Makarov area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East8
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires8
- Asociaciones de amonites de la formacion Santa Marta (Cretacio Tardio), Isla James Ross, Antartida6
- Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand6
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopods of Japan, Part I6
Each of the 228 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. 50 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 Anagaudryceras
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- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anagaudryceras 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.
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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What may have been alongside itGaudryceratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shimizu 1934