Lewyites elegans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LewyitesPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Lewyites elegans 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
22 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lewyites elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lewyites elegans and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Lewyites elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Trachyscaphites pulcherrimus4 sites
- Bostrychoceras polyplocum3 sites
- Echinocorys3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras retrorsum3 sites
- Hauericeras fayoli3 sites
- Trachyscaphites spiniger3 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata2 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Belemnitella2 sites
- Callopegma acaule2 sites
- Cardiaster2 sites
- Cardiotaxis2 sites
- Coeloptychium agaricoides2 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum2 sites
- Coeloptychium incisum2 sites
- Coeloptychium rude2 sites
- Coeloptychium sulciferum2 sites
- Cyclothyris globata2 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri2 sites
- Galerites2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Hoploscaphites2 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)2 sites
- Jeletzkytes compressus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Lewyites elegans, 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
7 references- First record of late Campanian ammonites from the Abderaz Formation of the Koppeh Dagh, northeastern Iran14
- Upper Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonites (Nostoceratidae, Diplomoceratidae) from Tercis les Bains (Landes, France)2
- Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from northern Aquitaine, France2
- Late Campanian polyptychoceratine ammonites from the Lehrte West Syncline, Hannover area, northwest Germany1
- Das Campan (höhere Ober-Kreide) der Lehrter Westmulde bei Hannover1
- Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea1
- New Late Campanian ammonites from the Gschliefgraben near Gmuden (Ultrahelvetic, Austria)1
Each of the 22 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. 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
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No picture of Lewyites elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lewyites elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLewyites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moberg 1885)