Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypacanthoplitesPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis 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
2 occurrences- Early 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
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The named rock units Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Acanthohoplites1 site
- Cymatoceras neckerianum1 site
- Diadochoceras1 site
- Diadochoceras nodosocostatum1 site
- Eodouvilleiceras clansayense1 site
- Hypacanthoplites elegans1 site
- Hypacanthoplites plesiotypicus1 site
- Hypacanthoplites pricei1 site
- Hypacanthoplites tenuiformis1 site
- Hypacanthoplites uhligi1 site
- Nolaniceras1 site
- Nolaniceras nolani1 site
- Protacanthoplites bigoureti1 site
- Pseudoaustraliceras1 site
- Uhligella clansayensis1 site
- Uhligella toucasi1 site
- Zuercherella zuercheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Additions to the subfamily Acanthohoplitinae from the British Isles, including the first verifiable record of Acanthohoplites (Lower Cretaceous, upper Aptian)1
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco)1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hypacanthoplites sigmoidalis 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 itHypacanthoplites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1965