Aulacosphinctes proximus

No picture of Aulacosphinctes proximus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aulacosphinctes proximus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulacosphinctesPBDB
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 most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 141 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.7 Mya140.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Aulacosphinctes proximus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

6 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

3 formations

Banos del Flaco — 35.01°S, 70.43°WLo Valdés — 33.75°S, 70.03°WLo Valdés — 34.27°S, 69.93°WBaños del Flaco — 35.00°S, 70.42°W

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The named rock units Aulacosphinctes proximus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aulacosphinctes proximus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Aulacosphinctes proximus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aulacosphinctes proximus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Aulacosphinctes proximus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aulacosphinctes proximus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aulacosphinctes proximus 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 itAulacosphinctes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Steuer 1897)