Discohoplites
No picture of Discohoplites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discohoplites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HoplitinaePBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Discohoplites 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
12 occurrences- Early 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
4 formations
- Marnes bleues Formation3
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation1
- Upper Greensand Formation1
- Bracquegnies Formation1
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The named rock units Discohoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Discohoplites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Discohoplites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Anisoceras perarmatum4 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum4 sites
- Hamites venetzianus3 sites
- Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana3 sites
- Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) clavigera3 sites
- Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) notha3 sites
- Anisoceras2 sites
- Callihoplites2 sites
- Discoides2 sites
- Holaster2 sites
- Idiohamites elegantulus2 sites
- Lechites2 sites
- Lechites (Lechites) gaudini2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) perinflatum2 sites
- Neophlycticeras blancheti2 sites
- Ostlingoceras puzosianum2 sites
- Pleurohoplites renauxianus2 sites
- Pleurotomaria2 sites
- Scaphites (Scaphites)2 sites
- Anahoplites1 site
- Anisoceras armatum1 site
- Anisoceras pseudoelegans1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arcoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Discohoplites, 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
5 references- The Upper Albian ammonite succession in the Montlaux section, Hautes-Alpes, France6
- The late Albian to Early Cenomanian succession at Mount Risou near Rosans (Drôme, SE France): an integrated study (ammonites, inoceramids, planktonic foraminifera, nannofossils, oxygen and carbon isotopes)3
- The late Late Albian (Mortoniceras fallax Zone) cephalopod fauna from the Bracquegnies formation at Strépy-Thieu (Hainaut, southern Belgium)1
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- A correlation of the uppermost Albian and the Cenomanian of South-West England1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Discohoplites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discohoplites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Discohoplites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.