Baculites asper

Baculites asper

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BaculitesPBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 31 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85.7 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

31 occurrences of Baculites asper 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

31 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

9 formations

Mancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WNiobrara — 36.28°N, 104.72°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 38.27°N, 104.61°WMooreville Chalk — 32.35°N, 86.34°WMooreville Chalk — 33.07°N, 88.32°WMooreville Chalk — 32.51°N, 86.18°WNkporo Shale — 5.83°N, 7.93°EWapiabi — 52.79°N, 116.86°WBad Heart — 55.48°N, 118.20°WMarias River Shale — 47.26°N, 109.68°WEutaw — 32.72°N, 87.80°WDemopolis — 34.58°N, 88.63°W

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The named rock units Baculites asper has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baculites asper and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Baculites asper and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Baculites asper, 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

10 references

Each of the 31 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 content2

Picture of Baculites asper

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itBaculites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morton 1830