Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Scaphites (Scaphites)PBDB
- 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 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi 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
11 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Prionocyclus novimexicanus4 sites
- Baculites yokoyamai2 sites
- Inoceramus perplexus1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Prionocyclus1 site
- Squalicorax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi, 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
5 references- Turonian ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous D-Cross Member of the Mancos Shale, Puertecito, Socorro County, New Mexico4
- Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonites and selachians from the type area of the Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale, Santa Fe County, New Mexico3
- Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonites from the Carlile Member and reference area of the Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale, eastern side of the San Juan Basin, La Ventana, Sandoval County, New Mexico2
- Cretaceous invertebrate and selachian fossil assemblage from the Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale near Herrera, west-central New Mexico1
- Revised interpretation of the Cretaceous section on Vermilion Creek, Moffat County, Colorado1
Each of the 11 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 content1
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- 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
No picture of Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi 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 Scaphites (Scaphites) whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itScaphites (Scaphites) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cobban 1951)