Glyptoxoceras

Glyptoxoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplomoceratinaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 103 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 102 of 103 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 103 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 9 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 12 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 11 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 11 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 11 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 11 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya107.1 Mya65.2 Mya

103 occurrences of Glyptoxoceras 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

103 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

41 formations

Miria — 22.69°S, 114.22°EMiria — 22.92°S, 114.10°EMiria — 22.80°S, 114.14°EValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°EMoreno — 37.26°N, 121.17°WMoreno — 37.19°N, 121.09°WMoreno — 36.96°N, 120.88°WMoreno — 36.93°N, 120.88°WMerchantville — 40.11°N, 74.74°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.44°N, 74.24°WCalcaire de Kunraed — 50.88°N, 5.75°EChico — 39.81°N, 121.73°WChico — 39.71°N, 121.94°WDaralitau — 37.80°N, 68.57°EDaralitau — 37.75°N, 68.52°ELa Frontera — 2.89°N, 75.68°WLa Frontera — 4.54°N, 74.45°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.79°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WGramame — 7.25°S, 34.80°WHochmoos — 47.58°N, 13.51°EPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.14°N, 87.40°WHaslam — 49.19°N, 124.15°WHaslam — 49.08°N, 124.01°WEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.49°WMooreville Chalk — 33.23°N, 88.27°WAhlen — 51.77°N, 8.05°EPodega — 42.17°N, 0.90°EDanish White Chalk — 57.02°N, 8.75°EOzan — 33.42°N, 95.95°WSaint Cirac — 42.92°N, 1.75°EUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EObourg — 50.47°N, 4.00°ETrivières Chalk — 50.45°N, 4.13°EBlossom Sand — 33.66°N, 95.27°W

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The named rock units Glyptoxoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptoxoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

565 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Glyptoxoceras, 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

45 references

Each of the 103 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. 33 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 Glyptoxoceras

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

No 3D scan of Glyptoxoceras 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1925