Grossouvrites gemmatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrossouvritesPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
20 occurrences of Grossouvrites gemmatus 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
20 occurrences- Late 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
6 formations
- Miria Formation9
- Quiriquina Formation3
- Lancelin Formation1
- Korojon Calcarenite Formation1
- Miria Calcarenite Formation1
- Cerro Cazador Formation1
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The named rock units Grossouvrites gemmatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Grossouvrites gemmatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Grossouvrites gemmatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Gunnarites kalika11 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra11 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides10 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya10 sites
- Kitchinites spathi10 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum10 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus9 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis9 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei8 sites
- Maorites densicostatus8 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum7 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis6 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus6 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum5 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum5 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis5 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus5 sites
- Baculites anceps3 sites
- Brahmaites (Brahmaites) kossmati3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum3 sites
- Gunnarites bhavaniformis3 sites
- Gunnarites raggatti3 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) brunnschweileri3 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) erbeni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Grossouvrites gemmatus, 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- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia11
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land4
- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile3
- The first record of a Maastrichtian ammonite the Perth Basin, Western Australia, and its biostratigraphical significance1
- Algunos cefalópodos supracretácicos de Río Turbio (Santa Cruz)1
Each of the 20 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
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Picture of Grossouvrites gemmatus
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No 3D scan of Grossouvrites gemmatus 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. (Huppe 1854)