Enchoteuthis melanae

No picture of Enchoteuthis melanae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Enchoteuthis melanae itself, so it was not used. 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 Enchoteuthis melanae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EnchoteuthisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Octopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85.7 Mya – 83.6 Mya90.3 Mya71.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Enchoteuthis melanae 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

11 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

3 formations

Pierre Shale — 49.20°N, 98.23°WPierre Shale — 49.37°N, 98.24°WNiobrara — 39.02°N, 99.50°WNiobrara — 38.90°N, 101.18°WNiobrara — 39.15°N, 99.35°WNiobrara — 38.77°N, 100.50°WPierre Shale — 43.24°N, 104.27°W

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The named rock units Enchoteuthis melanae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Enchoteuthis melanae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Enchoteuthis melanae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Enchoteuthis melanae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 11 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

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Enchoteuthis indet. · FHSM:ip:1527

No picture of Enchoteuthis melanae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Enchoteuthis melanae itself, so it was not used.

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 Enchoteuthis melanae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEnchoteuthis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Walker 1968