Maorites

Maorites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KossmaticeratinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 86.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 163 of 163 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 163 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 9 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 15 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 15 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 15 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 15 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.6 Mya65.5 Mya

163 occurrences of Maorites 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

163 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

16 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.71°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.77°WUpper Lopez de Bertodano — 64.27°S, 56.73°WMiria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.89°S, 114.12°EMiria — 22.67°S, 114.23°EMiria — 22.63°S, 114.26°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WOtamatea — 36.20°S, 174.29°ERio Blanco — 53.50°S, 71.42°WQuiriquina — 36.59°S, 72.98°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 73.06°WSanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSanta Ana — 53.50°S, 71.42°WSt Lucia — 27.99°S, 32.41°EFuentes — 52.65°S, 71.97°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.74°S, 114.19°EMiria Calcarenite — 22.67°S, 114.25°ESnow Hill Island — 63.88°S, 57.61°WCerro Cazador — 51.54°S, 72.34°WSt. Lucia — 27.01°S, 32.42°E

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The named rock units Maorites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Maorites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 136 sites for Maorites, 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

20 references

Each of the 163 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Maorites

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itKossmaticeratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marshall 1926