Damesites sugata
Collignon, Maurice Jules Marie · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- DamesitesPBDB
- 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 72.2 Mya.
17 occurrences of Damesites sugata 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
17 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
10 formations
- Anaipadi Formation2
- Haslam Formation2
- Redding Formation · Pacheco Group1
- Umzamba Formation1
- St Lucia Formation1
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group1
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The named rock units Damesites sugata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Damesites sugata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Damesites sugata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Amapondella amapondense3 sites
- Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni3 sites
- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denseplicatum2 sites
- Gaudryceras striatum2 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum2 sites
- Marsupites testudinarius2 sites
- Mesopuzosia gaudama2 sites
- Schlueterella2 sites
- Sphenoceramus elegans2 sites
- Sphenoceramus orientalis2 sites
- Acirsa delta1 site
- Anisoceras draconis1 site
- Anisomyon transformis1 site
- Archaeopus rostratus1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites bailyi1 site
- Baculites fuchsi1 site
- Baculites tanakai1 site
- Boehmoceras arculus1 site
- Boehmoceras krekeleri1 site
- Damesites damesi intermedius1 site
- Desmophyllites diphylloides1 site
- Epigoniceras epigonum1 site
- Eulophoceras austriacum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Damesites sugata, 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
9 references- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast5
- Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées)3
- The crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province2
- Inoceramids and associated ammonite faunas from the uppermost Turonian-lower Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Anaipadi–Saradamangalam region of the Cauvery Basin, south-east India2
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Desmoceratinae Zittel, 18951
- Stratigraphy and fossil assemblages of the Upper Cretaceous system in the Makarov area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East1
- Stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Baba Formation at São Nicolau, Angola1
- Neue Ammoniten aus der Sandkalkbank der Hochmoosschichten (Obersanton; Gosau, Österreich)1
- A new carinate phylloceratid ammonite from the early Albian (Cretaceous) of Zululand, South Africa1
Each of the 17 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 Damesites sugata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collignon, Maurice Jules Marie
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDamesites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1846)