Rubroceras alatum
No picture of Rubroceras alatum 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 Rubroceras alatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RubrocerasPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rubroceras alatum 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
2 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
2 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Rubroceras alatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rubroceras alatum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rubroceras alatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Anisoceras1 site
- Burroceras1 site
- Burroceras transitorium1 site
- Neocardioceras woodwardi1 site
- Pseudaspidoceras flexuosum1 site
- Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides1 site
- Vascoceras barcoicense1 site
- Vascoceras gamai1 site
- Vascoceras silvanense1 site
- Worthoceras vermiculum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rubroceras alatum, 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- Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt1
- Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Rubroceras alatum 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 Rubroceras alatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rubroceras alatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRubroceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobban et al. 1989