Schloenbachia varians

Schloenbachia varians

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchloenbachiaPBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 79 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 79 of 79 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 6 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 6 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 6 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 6 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 6 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya85.2 Mya

79 occurrences of Schloenbachia varians 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

79 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

24 formations

Calcaires de Fiz — 45.96°N, 6.69°ECalcaires de Fiz — 46.04°N, 6.62°ECalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.79°ECalcaires de Fiz — 46.13°N, 6.80°EBeer Head Limestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.77°N, 2.57°WLower Chalk — 50.83°N, 2.60°WLower Chalk — 50.80°N, 2.67°WFosdalen — 72.96°N, 23.07°WFosdalen — 74.26°N, 20.55°WFosdalen — 72.96°N, 23.05°WFosdalen — 72.86°N, 22.50°WFosdalen — 72.90°N, 22.81°WWest 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°WArnager Greensand — 55.05°N, 14.80°EUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 2.67°WUpper Greensand — 50.78°N, 2.63°WAitamir — 36.20°N, 60.83°EAitamir — 36.83°N, 59.70°EAitamir — 36.23°N, 60.40°ESaint Jouin — 49.65°N, 0.17°ESaint Jouin — 49.55°N, 0.12°EBaddeckenstedt — 52.28°N, 7.45°EBaddeckenstedt — 52.18°N, 7.87°ECalcaires des Fiz — 46.02°N, 6.60°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.73°N, 6.90°ECraie de Rouen — 48.60°N, 0.63°ESables du Lamnay — 48.60°N, 0.63°EBrochterbeck — 52.22°N, 7.75°EMarnes Bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°EGlauconitic Marl — 52.33°N, 2.28°WCraie glauconieuse — 48.84°N, 0.13°ESables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.35°WMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EKolbay — 43.70°N, 53.98°EHibernian Greensands — 54.63°N, 5.96°WSorgenfri — 68.64°N, 30.93°W

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The named rock units Schloenbachia varians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schloenbachia varians and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Schloenbachia varians and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Schloenbachia varians, 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

22 references

Each of the 79 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. 10 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 content1

Picture of Schloenbachia varians

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Schloenbachia varians 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1817)