Baculites thomi
No picture of Baculites thomi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Baculites thomi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
2 occurrences of Baculites thomi 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Baculites thomi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baculites thomi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Baculites thomi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Clioscaphites choteauensis2 sites
- Inoceramus (Cordiceramus)2 sites
- Reginaites leei2 sites
- Scaphites (Scaphites) leei2 sites
- Texanites2 sites
- Cataceramus balticus1 site
- Clioscaphites vermiformis1 site
- Desmoscaphites1 site
- Desmoscaphites bassleri1 site
- Desmoscaphites erdmanni1 site
- Glyptoxoceras novimexicanum1 site
- Haresiceras (Mancosiceras)1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Inoceramus (Sphenoceramus) lundbreckensis1 site
- Inoceramus simpsoni1 site
- Phelopteria linguaeformis1 site
- Platyceramus cycloides1 site
- Platyceramus platinus1 site
- Pseudoperna1 site
- Sphenoceramus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Baculites thomi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 Baculites thomi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Baculites thomi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baculites thomi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. Reeside 1927