Gunnarites kalika

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GunnaritesPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
36 occurrences of Gunnarites kalika 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
36 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 Formation21
- Fuentes Formation2
- Saint Lucia Formation · Alphard Group1
- Rio Blanco Formation1
- Korojon Calcarenite Formation1
- Miria Calcarenite Formation1
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The named rock units Gunnarites kalika has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gunnarites kalika and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gunnarites kalika and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Pseudophyllites indra19 sites
- Kitchinites spathi18 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya16 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum16 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides15 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus12 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei11 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus11 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis11 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis11 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum10 sites
- Maorites densicostatus10 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis8 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus8 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum7 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus6 sites
- Gunnarites raggatti5 sites
- Brahmaites (Brahmaites) kossmati4 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum4 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum4 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) brunnschweileri4 sites
- Anagaudryceras subtilineatum3 sites
- Eubaculites latecarinatus3 sites
- Eubaculites simplex3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Gunnarites kalika, 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
4 references- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia23
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land9
- Late Cretaceous ammonites from Seno Skyring-Strait of Magellan area, Magallanes Province, Chile3
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites and inoceramids from the off-shore Alphard Group of South Africa1
Each of the 36 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Gunnarites kalika
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No 3D scan of Gunnarites kalika 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. (Stolickzka 1865)