Aulacodiscus septus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulacodiscusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromboidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Stromboidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
52 occurrences of Aulacodiscus septus 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
52 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Aulacodiscus septus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aulacodiscus septus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aulacodiscus septus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Hemiaulus35 sites
- Paralia sulcata35 sites
- Costopyxis34 sites
- Stephanopyxis34 sites
- Trinacria34 sites
- Actinoptychus29 sites
- Pterotheca29 sites
- Stellarima29 sites
- Stephanopyxis turris29 sites
- Cortinocornus rossicus27 sites
- Goniothecium27 sites
- Thalassiosiropsis27 sites
- Meristiosolen sp. 126 sites
- Gladiopsis speciosus25 sites
- Hemiaulus polymorphus25 sites
- Trochosiropsis25 sites
- Micrampula parvula23 sites
- Odontotropis23 sites
- Pseudopyxilla22 sites
- Bacillariophyceae16 sites
- Corinna16 sites
- Sceptroneis16 sites
- Sheshukovia16 sites
- Stephanopyxis simonseni15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Aulacodiscus septus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 52 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Aulacodiscus septus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aulacodiscus septus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAulacodiscus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1876