Cubasphinctes

Cubasphinctes

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VinalesphinctinaePBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 12 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161.5 Mya157.9 Mya165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

15 occurrences of Cubasphinctes 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

15 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

4 formations

Lotena — 37.23°S, 70.37°WLotena — 38.00°S, 70.50°WLotena — 37.00°S, 71.00°WLotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLotena — 36.22°S, 69.88°WLotena — 35.18°S, 70.35°WLa Manga — 38.00°S, 70.50°WLa Manga — 37.00°S, 71.00°WLa Manga — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLa Manga — 35.18°S, 70.35°WLa Manga — 36.21°S, 69.87°WLotena — 36.00°S, 71.00°WLa Manga — 36.00°S, 71.00°W

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

Cubasphinctes and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cubasphinctes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Cubasphinctes, 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

3 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Cubasphinctes

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cubasphinctes 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.

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What may have been alongside itVinalesphinctinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chudoley and Furrazola 1968