Phyllopachyceras forbesianum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhyllopachycerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- 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.
32 occurrences of Phyllopachyceras forbesianum 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
32 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
9 formations
- Miria Formation14
- Otamatea Formation2
- Valudavur Formation1
- Korojon Calcarenite Formation1
- Miria Calcarenite Formation1
- Matanuska Formation1
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The named rock units Phyllopachyceras forbesianum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Phyllopachyceras forbesianum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Phyllopachyceras forbesianum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Pseudophyllites indra19 sites
- Gunnarites kalika16 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides14 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya14 sites
- Kitchinites spathi14 sites
- Diplomoceras cylindraceum11 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus11 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei10 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus10 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) australis9 sites
- Maorites densicostatus8 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis8 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus7 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum6 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti australis5 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus dissitus5 sites
- Gaudryceras4 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum4 sites
- Brahmaites (Brahmaites) kossmati3 sites
- Eubaculites simplex3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum3 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) nera3 sites
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) brunnschweileri3 sites
- Phylloceras3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Phyllopachyceras forbesianum, 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
12 references- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia16
- Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand3
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopods of Japan, Part I3
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land2
- Upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) cephalopods from the Parras Shale near Saucedas, Coahuila, Mexico1
- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile1
- Non-Heteromorph Ammonites From the Upper Maastrichtian of Pondicherry, South India1
- Lower Maastrichtian ammonites from Neuberg, Steiermark, Austria1
- Longusorbis cuniculosus: A New Genus and Species of Upper Cretaceous Crab; with Comments on Spray Formation at Shelter Point, Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
- Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska1
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III1
- On Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Ammonoidea from Western Australia1
Each of the 32 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.
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No 3D scan of Phyllopachyceras forbesianum was found in Sketchfab.
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)