Kitchinites

Kitchinites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PuzosiinaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 91 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 91 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 10 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 10 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 10 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 10 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences85.7 Mya72.2 Mya90.3 Mya65.5 Mya

91 occurrences of Kitchinites 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

91 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

14 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.78°WMiria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.96°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.92°S, 114.10°EMiria — 22.83°S, 114.14°EMiria — 22.63°S, 114.26°EQuiriquina — 36.59°S, 72.98°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 73.06°WQuiriquina — 36.73°S, 73.14°WQuiriquina — 36.80°S, 73.04°WQuiriquina — 36.76°S, 73.10°WUpper Lopez de Bertodano — 64.27°S, 56.73°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°EYorimatsu — 33.25°N, 132.75°ENavesink — 40.41°N, 74.03°WFunks — 38.52°N, 122.08°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.74°S, 114.19°EMiria Calcarenite — 22.67°S, 114.25°EHochmoos — 47.58°N, 13.51°EHaslam — 49.59°N, 124.99°WOtamatea — 36.20°S, 174.29°E

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The named rock units Kitchinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kitchinites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Kitchinites, 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

22 references

Each of the 91 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. 10 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 Kitchinites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kitchinites 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922