Lytoceras batesi

Lytoceras batesi is an ammonite species belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period.

Lytoceras batesi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LytocerasPBDB
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 6.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 21 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous120–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120.1 Mya112.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Lytoceras batesi 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

21 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

1 formation

Budden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.58°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.64°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.65°W

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The named rock units Lytoceras batesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lytoceras batesi and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Lytoceras batesi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Lytoceras batesi, 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

Each of the 21 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

Media content1

Picture of Lytoceras batesi

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Lytoceras batesi 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLytoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trask 1855)