Cymatoceras pseudoelegans

Cymatoceras pseudoelegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CymatocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Nautilidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 27 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 3 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

28 occurrences of Cymatoceras pseudoelegans on record, most of them in the Early 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

28 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

8 formations

Hythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°EHythe — 51.28°N, 0.53°EHythe — 51.25°N, 0.07°WFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAground Ouadar — 31.21°N, 7.88°WSidi Lhousseine — 31.21°N, 7.88°WVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.02°N, 7.08°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Cymatoceras pseudoelegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymatoceras pseudoelegans and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cymatoceras pseudoelegans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

368 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cymatoceras pseudoelegans, 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 28 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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Picture of Cymatoceras pseudoelegans

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No 3D scan of Cymatoceras pseudoelegans 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 itCymatoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1841)