Hoploscaphites

Hoploscaphites is an extinct ammonite genus from the Upper Cretaceous and the Lower Paleocene, included in the family Scaphitidae.

Hoploscaphites

El fosilmaníaco · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphitidaePBDB
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 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 319 of 319 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 319 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 17 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 21 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 21 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 21 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 21 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 21 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 21 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 21 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 21 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

319 occurrences of Hoploscaphites 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

319 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

33 formations

Pierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 43.26°N, 104.22°WPierre Shale — 38.87°N, 101.97°WPierre Shale — 38.90°N, 101.75°WPierre Shale — 39.90°N, 101.80°WPierre Shale — 39.87°N, 102.18°WPierre Shale — 45.19°N, 101.22°WPierre Shale — 45.14°N, 100.88°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WPierre Shale — 40.27°N, 105.04°WPierre Shale — 40.46°N, 104.94°WPierre Shale — 39.71°N, 105.19°WPierre Shale — 40.85°N, 105.08°WPierre Shale — 45.21°N, 101.51°WPierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WFox Hills — 40.45°N, 103.91°WFox Hills — 40.89°N, 105.00°WFox Hills — 40.64°N, 104.94°WFox Hills — 39.74°N, 105.22°WFox Hills — 45.62°N, 100.81°WFox Hills — 45.72°N, 100.82°WFox Hills — 45.77°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 46.25°N, 100.22°WFox Hills — 45.65°N, 100.89°WFox Hills — 45.69°N, 101.02°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 101.17°WFox Hills — 45.61°N, 100.90°WFox Hills — 45.26°N, 101.03°WFox Hills — 43.18°N, 104.35°WFox Hills — 45.70°N, 100.67°WFox Hills — 45.16°N, 101.29°WFox Hills — 45.03°N, 101.46°WFox Hills — 44.92°N, 101.28°WFox Hills — 45.24°N, 101.22°WFox Hills — 45.22°N, 101.50°WFox Hills — 45.29°N, 101.32°WFox Hills — 44.97°N, 101.20°WFox Hills — 43.19°N, 104.36°WFox Hills — 43.28°N, 104.26°WFox Hills — 44.98°N, 101.67°WDanish White Chalk — 57.00°N, 9.30°EDanish White Chalk — 57.03°N, 9.93°EDanish White Chalk — 56.77°N, 9.02°EDanish White Chalk — 57.05°N, 8.70°EDanish White Chalk — 56.95°N, 9.85°EDanish White Chalk — 56.85°N, 9.83°EDanish White Chalk — 56.97°N, 10.10°EDanish White Chalk — 57.02°N, 8.75°EDanish White Chalk — 55.55°N, 12.22°EDanish White Chalk — 56.88°N, 10.12°EDanish White Chalk — 57.07°N, 9.92°EDanish White Chalk — 56.93°N, 9.90°EDanish White Chalk — 54.97°N, 12.55°EDanish White Chalk — 57.07°N, 9.98°EDanish White Chalk — 56.73°N, 9.93°EDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°EDanish White Chalk — 56.70°N, 10.03°EDanish White Chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 8.02°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.70°N, 7.92°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.85°EBearpaw Shale — 50.90°N, 110.00°WBearpaw Shale — 49.40°N, 110.69°WBearpaw Shale — 49.99°N, 104.52°WBearpaw Shale — 49.67°N, 109.50°WBearpaw Shale — 51.10°N, 106.65°WBearpaw Shale — 49.47°N, 109.47°WBearpaw Shale — 49.98°N, 105.30°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.75°N, 93.90°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.72°N, 93.67°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.70°N, 93.96°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.81°N, 93.71°WLewis Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WLewis Shale — 36.25°N, 106.95°WLewis Shale — 36.57°N, 106.87°WCraie de Valognes — 49.42°N, 1.45°WCraie de Valognes — 49.43°N, 1.52°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WMaastricht — 50.78°N, 5.97°EMaastricht — 50.88°N, 5.75°EMaastricht — 50.77°N, 5.73°EBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WBearpaw — 50.67°N, 107.73°WBearpaw — 49.47°N, 109.38°WCalcaire de Kunraed — 50.88°N, 5.75°EKangilia — 70.83°N, 53.25°WDaralitau — 37.80°N, 68.57°EDaralitau — 37.45°N, 68.08°ECorsicana Marl — 32.19°N, 96.30°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.79°N, 75.63°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 33.61°N, 95.05°WNavesink — 40.41°N, 74.03°WHell Creek — 46.09°N, 100.63°WArén — 42.17°N, 0.90°ERügen White Chalk — 54.57°N, 13.67°EEastend — 49.62°N, 110.29°WCraie de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.93°EMaastricht — 50.87°N, 4.73°E

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The named rock units Hoploscaphites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hoploscaphites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

908 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 279 sites for Hoploscaphites, and this reads 240 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

50 references

Each of the 319 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. 38 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 Hoploscaphites

Credit
El fosilmaníaco
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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Laser scan

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Specimen
Hoploscaphites nicolletii · YPM:IP:YPM IP 053455

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itScaphitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nowak 1911)