Paracanthoplites
No picture of Paracanthoplites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Paracanthoplites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthohoplitinaePBDB
- 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Paracanthoplites 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paracanthoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracanthoplites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Paracanthoplites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acanthohoplites1 site
- Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis1 site
- Burckhardtites1 site
- Cheloniceras1 site
- Colombiceras1 site
- Hypacanthoplites1 site
- Hypacanthoplites plesiotypicus1 site
- Hypacanthoplites rugosus1 site
- Immunitoceras1 site
- Megatyloceras1 site
- Pedioceras1 site
- Prolyelliceras prorsocurvatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paracanthoplites, 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
1 reference- Étude biostratigraphique des Ammonites (Jurassique supérieur et Crétacé) du Mexique (Centre et Nord)1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paracanthoplites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Paracanthoplites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracanthoplites 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 itAcanthohoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stoyanow 1949