Desmophyllites

Desmophyllites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DesmoceratinaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 80 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 80 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 80 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 6 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 6 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 6 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences110.1 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

80 occurrences of Desmophyllites 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

80 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

26 formations

Miria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.96°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.92°S, 114.10°EMiria — 22.63°S, 114.26°EChinomigawa — 42.18°N, 142.78°EChinomigawa — 42.91°N, 142.42°EMatanuska — 62.08°N, 147.83°WMatanuska — 61.84°N, 148.06°WMatanuska — 62.01°N, 147.61°WForbes — 38.95°N, 122.01°WForbes — 38.60°N, 122.04°WForbes — 38.56°N, 122.06°WAnnona — 33.77°N, 93.92°WAnnona — 33.80°N, 94.06°WBudden Canyon — 40.52°N, 122.46°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.58°WValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°EFunks — 38.90°N, 122.26°WBagua — 5.51°S, 78.55°WSaint Cirac — 42.92°N, 1.75°EMzamba — 30.75°S, 30.62°EChonta — 7.20°S, 75.27°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.74°S, 114.19°EMiria Calcarenite — 22.67°S, 114.25°ENay — 43.20°N, 0.39°WParras — 26.75°N, 103.17°WSimsima — 24.90°N, 55.92°EUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EChatsworth — 34.22°N, 118.67°WLogbadjeck — 3.92°N, 10.04°EPanoche — 35.51°N, 119.99°WDel Valle — 37.59°N, 121.72°WPiesting — 47.84°N, 16.11°E

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The named rock units Desmophyllites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Desmophyllites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Desmophyllites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

408 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Desmophyllites, 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

32 references

Each of the 80 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 Desmophyllites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Desmophyllites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1829