Anglonautilus

Anglonautilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NautilidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Nautilidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 16 of 35 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya134 Mya65 Mya

35 occurrences of Anglonautilus 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

35 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

10 formations

Rosario — 29.58°N, 115.25°WRosario — 29.58°N, 115.24°WRosario — 31.46°N, 116.57°WRosario — 31.33°N, 116.45°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.22°WSandgate — 51.23°N, 0.58°WSandgate — 50.98°N, 0.75°WSandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EDakhla — 25.74°N, 28.96°EMikasa — 43.24°N, 142.00°EMikasa — 43.28°N, 141.97°EWilliams — 33.71°N, 117.71°WAltamira — 43.47°N, 3.79°WPoint Loma — 33.14°N, 117.28°WForcall — 40.80°N, 0.30°WTakatika Grit — 43.75°S, 176.68°WFaringdon Sand — 51.64°N, 1.59°W

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The named rock units Anglonautilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anglonautilus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Anglonautilus, 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

12 references

Each of the 35 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. 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 content3

Picture of Anglonautilus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anglonautilus catarinae · LACM:IP:LACMIP 23268.14

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNautilidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1927