Eutrephoceras dekayi

Eutrephoceras dekayi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EutrephocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Nautilidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 79 of 80 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 80 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

80 occurrences of Eutrephoceras dekayi 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

18 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.73°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.03°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.66°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.11°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.04°N, 76.57°WEscondido — 29.36°N, 99.06°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.11°N, 99.82°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.31°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.92°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WSandy Hook — 40.40°N, 74.12°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WFox Hills — 45.26°N, 100.88°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WDemopolis — 32.52°N, 87.84°W

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The named rock units Eutrephoceras dekayi 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.

Eutrephoceras dekayi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Eutrephoceras dekayi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

849 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Eutrephoceras dekayi, 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

16 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. 4 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 content3

Picture of Eutrephoceras dekayi

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

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eutrephoceras dekayi · YPM:IP:YPM IP 201196

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Everything alive alongside itEutrephoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1834)