Scaphitidae

Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites. There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.

Scaphitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphitoideaPBDB
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 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1460 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 50 of 1460 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1408 of 1460 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 1460 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 10 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 20 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 27 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 46 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 45 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 175 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 123 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 82 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 96 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 83 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 83 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 83 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 131 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 237 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 210 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106.3 Mya66 Mya145 Mya60 Mya

1,460 occurrences of Scaphitidae 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

1,460 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

166 formations

Fox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WFox Hills — 40.45°N, 103.91°WFox Hills — 40.89°N, 105.00°WFox Hills — 40.64°N, 104.94°WFox Hills — 39.74°N, 105.22°WFox Hills — 39.29°N, 105.86°WFox Hills — 40.44°N, 104.86°WFox Hills — 45.62°N, 100.81°WFox Hills — 45.72°N, 100.82°WFox Hills — 45.77°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 46.25°N, 100.22°WFox Hills — 45.65°N, 100.89°WFox Hills — 45.69°N, 101.02°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 101.17°WFox Hills — 45.61°N, 100.90°WFox Hills — 45.26°N, 101.03°WFox Hills — 43.18°N, 104.35°WFox Hills — 45.70°N, 100.67°WFox Hills — 45.16°N, 101.29°WFox Hills — 45.03°N, 101.46°WFox Hills — 44.92°N, 101.28°WFox Hills — 45.24°N, 101.22°WFox Hills — 45.22°N, 101.50°WFox Hills — 45.29°N, 101.32°WFox Hills — 44.97°N, 101.20°WFox Hills — 43.19°N, 104.36°WFox Hills — 43.28°N, 104.26°WFox Hills — 45.23°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 45.10°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 45.72°N, 101.20°WFox Hills — 45.22°N, 101.36°WFox Hills — 45.21°N, 101.66°WFox Hills — 45.23°N, 101.61°WFox Hills — 45.17°N, 101.78°WFox Hills — 45.59°N, 100.96°WFox Hills — 45.73°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 44.95°N, 101.26°WFox Hills — 44.98°N, 101.67°WPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 43.26°N, 104.22°WPierre Shale — 38.87°N, 101.97°WPierre Shale — 38.90°N, 101.75°WPierre Shale — 39.90°N, 101.80°WPierre Shale — 39.87°N, 102.18°WPierre Shale — 45.19°N, 101.22°WPierre Shale — 45.14°N, 100.88°WPierre Shale — 45.75°N, 101.13°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WPierre Shale — 40.27°N, 105.04°WPierre Shale — 40.46°N, 104.94°WPierre Shale — 39.71°N, 105.19°WPierre Shale — 40.08°N, 105.19°WPierre Shale — 44.83°N, 105.08°WPierre Shale — 42.98°N, 102.92°WPierre Shale — 41.41°N, 105.18°WPierre Shale — 40.72°N, 106.12°WPierre Shale — 40.90°N, 105.06°WPierre Shale — 40.73°N, 105.04°WPierre Shale — 40.71°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.51°N, 105.08°WPierre Shale — 46.91°N, 104.72°WPierre Shale — 46.95°N, 104.77°WPierre Shale — 40.85°N, 105.08°WPierre Shale — 45.21°N, 101.51°WPierre Shale — 44.01°N, 102.24°WPierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 40.08°N, 105.27°WPierre Shale — 44.05°N, 101.20°WSaku — 44.07°N, 141.93°ESaku — 44.74°N, 142.01°ESaku — 44.11°N, 142.00°ESaku — 44.02°N, 141.91°ESaku — 44.03°N, 141.95°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.16°ESaku — 43.67°N, 142.08°ESaku — 44.06°N, 142.98°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.15°EPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.24°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.51°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.97°N, 88.55°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.49°N, 88.10°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WPrairie Bluff — 32.34°N, 86.77°WBearpaw Shale — 50.90°N, 110.00°WBearpaw Shale — 49.40°N, 110.69°WBearpaw Shale — 49.99°N, 104.52°WBearpaw Shale — 49.67°N, 109.50°WBearpaw Shale — 51.10°N, 106.65°WBearpaw Shale — 49.74°N, 107.49°WBearpaw Shale — 49.47°N, 109.47°WBearpaw Shale — 49.98°N, 105.30°WBearpaw Shale — 49.38°N, 109.28°WBearpaw Shale — 49.43°N, 109.85°WBearpaw Shale — 49.67°N, 109.32°WBearpaw Shale — 49.80°N, 109.60°WBearpaw Shale — 49.00°N, 105.77°WBearpaw Shale — 50.23°N, 105.40°WBearpaw Shale — 49.55°N, 107.92°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.97°N, 110.84°WMancos Shale — 35.96°N, 110.89°WMancos 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 — 34.83°N, 108.97°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°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°WNiobrara — 38.25°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 36.59°N, 104.53°WNiobrara — 36.68°N, 104.41°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.79°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WBearpaw Shale — 45.82°N, 109.13°WBearpaw Shale — 47.01°N, 107.80°WBearpaw Shale — 46.71°N, 107.75°WBearpaw Shale — 48.64°N, 108.51°WBearpaw Shale — 48.45°N, 109.32°WBearpaw Shale — 48.08°N, 109.28°WBearpaw Shale — 48.03°N, 109.08°WBearpaw Shale — 47.85°N, 108.25°WBearpaw Shale — 47.61°N, 107.79°WBearpaw Shale — 47.71°N, 107.71°WBearpaw Shale — 47.71°N, 107.79°WBearpaw Shale — 47.60°N, 107.71°WBearpaw Shale — 47.62°N, 107.64°WBearpaw Shale — 47.67°N, 107.32°WBearpaw Shale — 47.70°N, 107.36°WBearpaw Shale — 47.71°N, 106.57°WBearpaw Shale — 47.85°N, 106.64°WBearpaw Shale — 48.16°N, 106.39°WBearpaw Shale — 47.45°N, 108.41°WBearpaw Shale — 47.05°N, 107.89°WBearpaw Shale — 46.73°N, 107.74°WBearpaw Shale — 46.79°N, 107.57°WBearpaw Shale — 45.66°N, 109.21°WBearpaw Shale — 45.30°N, 109.00°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 32.86°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WCorsicana Marl — 32.05°N, 96.44°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.75°N, 96.58°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.74°WCorsicana Marl — 30.94°N, 96.95°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.72°N, 97.90°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.18°N, 99.02°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WDanish White Chalk — 54.97°N, 12.55°EDanish White Chalk — 57.07°N, 9.98°EDanish White Chalk — 57.02°N, 8.75°EDanish White Chalk — 57.00°N, 9.30°EDanish White Chalk — 57.03°N, 9.93°EDanish White Chalk — 56.77°N, 9.02°EDanish White Chalk — 57.05°N, 8.70°EDanish White Chalk — 56.95°N, 9.85°EDanish White Chalk — 56.85°N, 9.83°EDanish White Chalk — 56.97°N, 10.10°EDanish White Chalk — 55.55°N, 12.22°EDanish White Chalk — 56.88°N, 10.12°EDanish White Chalk — 57.07°N, 9.92°EDanish White Chalk — 56.93°N, 9.90°EDanish White Chalk — 56.73°N, 9.93°EDanish White Chalk — 55.30°N, 12.45°EDanish White Chalk — 56.70°N, 10.03°EDanish White Chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°ESevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.04°N, 76.57°WSevern — 39.33°N, 76.03°WSevern — 38.83°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.00°N, 76.00°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°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 8.02°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.70°N, 7.92°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.85°EOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.02°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.91°WOwl Creek — 34.50°N, 88.99°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.55°N, 122.18°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.20°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WSeabee — 69.25°N, 153.82°WSeabee — 68.84°N, 150.55°WSeabee — 69.35°N, 154.07°WSeabee — 69.32°N, 153.84°WSeabee — 69.32°N, 154.04°WSeabee — 68.83°N, 151.39°WSeabee — 69.04°N, 152.07°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.36°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.33°WBearpaw — 48.15°N, 106.33°WBearpaw — 46.72°N, 107.73°WKashima — 43.29°N, 141.97°EKashima — 43.23°N, 141.99°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 52.01°N, 0.01°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.64°N, 0.75°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.97°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.46°N, 88.85°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.14°N, 87.40°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WBearpaw — 49.45°N, 112.83°WBearpaw — 50.67°N, 107.73°WBearpaw — 49.93°N, 106.47°WBearpaw — 49.47°N, 109.38°WLower 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°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°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°W

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The named rock units Scaphitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 142 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 218 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaphitidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,059 sites for Scaphitidae, 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

204 references

Each of the 1,460 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. 192 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 content2

Picture of Scaphitidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1871