Deltoidonautilus caheni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeltoidonautilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Deltoidonautilus caheni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Deltoidonautilus caheni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Deltoidonautilus caheni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Deltoidonautilus caheni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Aetomylaeus dixoni3 sites
- Myliobatis toliapicus3 sites
- Otodus obliquus3 sites
- Abdounia beaugei2 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis2 sites
- Brachycarcharias koerti2 sites
- Carcharias hopei2 sites
- Carcharias macrotus2 sites
- Carcharodon stromeri2 sites
- Galeorhinus loangoensis2 sites
- Ginglymostoma angolense2 sites
- Ginglymostoma serra2 sites
- Leidybatis jugosus2 sites
- Oxyrhina praecursor2 sites
- Palaeophis africanus2 sites
- Physogaleus tertius2 sites
- Anoxypristis mucrodens1 site
- Aprionodon amekiensis1 site
- Callianassa transversoplicata cabindae1 site
- Carcharhinidae1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Eutrephoceras dartevellei1 site
- Hemipristis1 site
- Myliobatis bilobatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Deltoidonautilus caheni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Deltoidonautilus caheni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Deltoidonautilus caheni was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itDeltoidonautilus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1951