Scaphites diana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScaphitesPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Scaphites diana 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Scaphites diana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scaphites diana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Scaphites diana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Nostoceras (Eubostrychoceras) saxonicum3 sites
- Allocrioceras angustum2 sites
- Allocrioceras nodiger2 sites
- Hyphantoceras (Hyphantoceras) reussianum2 sites
- Metaptychoceras smithi2 sites
- Sciponoceras bohemicum2 sites
- Allocrioceras billinghursti1 site
- Anisoceras reidi1 site
- Desmoceratidae1 site
- Eurete formosum1 site
- Eurete periphragelloides1 site
- Farrea oakleyi1 site
- Gaudryceras1 site
- Guettardiscyphia (Hillendia) polymorpha1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Lewesiceras mantelli1 site
- Lewesiceras woodi1 site
- Neocrioceras (Schlueterella) multinodosum1 site
- Nucula1 site
- Orbirhynchia dispansa1 site
- Otoscaphites reidi1 site
- Placotrema cretaceum1 site
- Scaphites (Scaphites) meslei1 site
- Scaphites geinitzii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Scaphites diana, 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
2 references- The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian)4
- Estratigrafia del Grupo Gustav en la Isla James Ross, Antartida1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Scaphites diana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scaphites diana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itScaphites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright 1979