Gunnarites zelandicus
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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 least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 86.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Gunnarites zelandicus 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
6 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
2 formations
- Conway Siltstone Formation · Mata Group4
- Fuentes Formation1
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The named rock units Gunnarites zelandicus 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.
Gunnarites zelandicus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gunnarites zelandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Perissoptera4 sites
- Aequipecten2 sites
- Bittiscala2 sites
- Chlamys (Mixtipecten)2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Glycymerita2 sites
- Jupiteria2 sites
- Linguloidea2 sites
- Maorites tenuicostatum2 sites
- Panopea clausa2 sites
- Protodolium speighti2 sites
- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Anagaudryceras particostatum1 site
- Anagaudryceras subsacya1 site
- Anisomyon1 site
- Aristonectinae1 site
- Baculites rectus1 site
- Conchothyra1 site
- Conus1 site
- Dimitobelus (Dimitocamax) hectori1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Gunnarites antarcticus1 site
- Gunnarites bhavaniformis1 site
- Gunnarites kalika1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gunnarites zelandicus, 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- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff district, South Marlborough (S56)2
- The Piripauan and Haumurian stratotypes (Mata Series, Upper Cretaceous) and correlative sequences in the Haumuri Bluff District, South Marlborough2
- Late Cretaceous ammonites from Seno Skyring-Strait of Magellan area, Magallanes Province, Chile1
- Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Gunnarites zelandicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Gunnarites zelandicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gunnarites zelandicus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itGunnarites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marshall 1917)