Scaphites

Scaphites is a genus of heteromorph ammonites belonging to the Scaphitidae family. They were a widespread genus that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period.

Scaphites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphitinaePBDB
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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 44 of 395 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 350 of 395 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 395 occurrencesPaleocene114–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 7 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 11 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 11 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 13 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 18 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 18 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 18 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 34 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 44 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 39 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 30 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 30 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 24 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 12 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 11 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 11 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 11 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 11 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 11 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106.3 Mya66 Mya114 Mya61 Mya

395 occurrences of Scaphites 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

395 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

104 formations

Mancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 38.77°N, 111.39°WMancos Shale — 34.42°N, 107.41°WMancos Shale — 35.87°N, 106.91°WMancos Shale — 34.70°N, 107.88°WMancos Shale — 35.72°N, 106.73°WMancos Shale — 35.21°N, 107.13°WMancos Shale — 35.45°N, 106.20°WMancos Shale — 35.47°N, 106.20°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.76°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.96°N, 6.69°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°ELower Chalk — 50.92°N, 2.23°WLower Chalk — 50.83°N, 2.55°WLower Chalk — 50.83°N, 2.60°WLower Chalk — 50.80°N, 2.67°WBlackstone — 52.38°N, 115.41°WBlackstone — 52.00°N, 115.00°WBlackstone — 52.36°N, 116.25°WBlackstone — 53.10°N, 117.45°WBlackstone — 53.74°N, 118.23°WBlackstone — 50.74°N, 113.85°WBlackstone — 52.80°N, 116.81°WNiobrara — 38.25°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 36.59°N, 104.53°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.79°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 52.01°N, 0.01°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 29.72°N, 97.90°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMerchantville — 39.46°N, 75.87°WMerchantville — 40.11°N, 74.74°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMarnes bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°ECardium — 54.63°N, 120.13°WCardium — 49.93°N, 111.69°WCardium — 50.74°N, 113.85°WSeabee — 69.25°N, 153.82°WSeabee — 68.84°N, 150.55°WSeabee — 69.32°N, 154.04°WSeabee — 68.83°N, 151.39°WSeabee — 69.04°N, 152.07°WCraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.74°N, 0.89°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.74°N, 0.65°ECarlile Shale — 42.52°N, 96.82°WCarlile Shale — 48.91°N, 98.12°WCarlile Shale — 42.98°N, 102.86°WCarlile Shale — 39.30°N, 98.44°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WSpringhill — 40.95°S, 175.67°ESpringhill — 40.88°S, 176.97°EMarias River Shale — 47.93°N, 110.47°WMarias River Shale — 48.65°N, 111.63°WMarias River Shale — 47.26°N, 109.68°WCraie de Rouen — 48.60°N, 0.63°ECraie de Rouen — 49.08°N, 0.50°ESaku — 44.74°N, 142.01°ESaku — 44.11°N, 142.00°ESaku — 43.67°N, 142.08°EBavnodde Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.75°EBavnodde Greensand — 55.13°N, 14.75°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.77°N, 2.57°WFrontier — 42.83°N, 108.73°WDülmener Schichten — 51.94°N, 7.08°EDülmener Schichten — 51.85°N, 7.25°EDülmener Schichten — 51.67°N, 7.25°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.20°N, 2.18°WBaddeckenstedt — 52.28°N, 7.45°EBaddeckenstedt — 52.18°N, 7.87°E

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The named rock units Scaphites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 80 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 94 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaphites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,496 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 335 sites for Scaphites, and this reads 240 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

121 references

Each of the 395 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. 109 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 content3

Picture of Scaphites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scaphites sp. · ypm:ip:YPM IP 539443

3D model

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

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 itScaphitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parkinson 1811)