Hypacanthoplites

Hypacanthoplites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthohoplitinaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 180 of 185 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 185 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 13 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 16 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 16 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 16 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 16 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 16 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 21 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 22 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 20 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113.2 Mya93.9 Mya122 Mya89.2 Mya

185 occurrences of Hypacanthoplites on record, most of them in the Early 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

185 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

25 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.91°N, 6.49°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.69°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.43°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.03°N, 6.47°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.95°N, 6.31°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.87°N, 6.31°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.81°N, 6.28°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°WFolkestone — 51.28°N, 0.53°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WSanganeh — 36.83°N, 59.93°ESanganeh — 36.62°N, 60.07°EGlen Rose Limestone — 29.91°N, 98.33°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.10°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.19°N, 98.09°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.05°N, 98.03°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.89°N, 98.43°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.63°N, 98.34°WSandrock — 50.63°N, 1.17°WCuchillo — 30.25°N, 98.42°WCuchillo — 29.93°N, 98.72°WCuchillo — 30.05°N, 98.03°WCuchillo — 31.47°N, 105.30°WCuchillo — 30.33°N, 97.80°WLemgo — 31.21°N, 7.88°WConglomérats de Bargy — 45.86°N, 6.43°EConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°ECouches du Freu — 46.88°N, 6.26°ECouches du Freu — 45.82°N, 6.27°ELa Péna — 27.83°N, 101.92°WCow Creek Limestone — 29.92°N, 98.33°WCow Creek Limestone — 30.48°N, 98.01°WCow Creek Limestone — 29.82°N, 98.30°WMural — 29.03°N, 111.63°WMural — 30.13°N, 110.70°WLa Peña — 29.61°N, 104.93°WTodai — 35.79°N, 138.13°ETata Limestone — 47.65°N, 18.31°EOued Tidzi — 31.21°N, 7.88°WArnager Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.82°EPine Island Shale — 32.63°N, 93.90°WOrbata — 34.13°N, 9.16°EBargy Conglomerate — 46.00°N, 6.10°EGrès verts Dauphinois — 46.05°N, 6.52°EHiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.95°ESables verts de l'Aube — 48.24°N, 4.32°EAgua Salada — 29.44°N, 109.49°W

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

Hypacanthoplites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Hypacanthoplites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

402 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Hypacanthoplites, 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

24 references

Each of the 185 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. 12 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 Hypacanthoplites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Hypacanthoplites 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 itAcanthohoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1923)