Spathites

Spathites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MammitinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 124 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 124 of 124 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 9 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 11 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 11 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 11 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 11 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 8 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

124 occurrences of Spathites 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

124 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

19 formations

Mancos Shale — 35.72°N, 106.92°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.29°N, 107.11°WMancos Shale — 34.78°N, 108.87°WMancos Shale — 34.44°N, 107.47°WMancos Shale — 35.40°N, 108.95°WMancos Shale — 35.28°N, 108.85°WMancos Shale — 35.12°N, 106.37°WMancos Shale — 34.98°N, 107.10°WMancos Shale — 34.83°N, 107.72°WMancos Shale — 35.13°N, 108.65°WMancos Shale — 34.85°N, 108.96°WMancos Shale — 33.89°N, 106.75°WMancos Shale — 33.51°N, 106.07°WMancos Shale — 35.51°N, 108.67°WMancos Shale — 35.98°N, 106.90°WMancos Shale — 35.58°N, 106.97°WMancos Shale — 35.55°N, 106.98°WMancos Shale — 35.45°N, 107.12°WMancos Shale — 35.48°N, 106.87°WMancos Shale — 35.26°N, 107.00°WMancos Shale — 35.28°N, 106.94°WMancos Shale — 35.24°N, 106.95°WMancos Shale — 35.23°N, 106.99°WMarnes verts a Exogyres — 45.83°N, 0.65°WMarnes verts a Exogyres — 45.84°N, 0.63°WPicofrentes — 41.13°N, 2.82°WPicofrentes — 41.22°N, 3.13°WTres Hermanos — 34.82°N, 107.65°WTres Hermanos — 33.88°N, 106.73°WTres Hermanos — 33.88°N, 106.75°WBoquillas — 29.50°N, 105.00°WBrießnitz — 51.00°N, 13.77°EBrießnitz — 51.05°N, 13.66°EPuentedey — 42.97°N, 3.69°WPuentedey — 41.00°N, 3.25°WPindiga — 9.98°N, 10.95°EChispa Summit — 30.70°N, 104.78°WCarlile Shale — 35.77°N, 105.25°WOjinaga — 30.75°N, 105.18°WKunnam — 11.23°N, 78.99°EToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WZebbag — 34.15°N, 9.08°EGongila — 10.94°N, 11.45°EBranderfleck — 47.76°N, 14.55°EBoquillas — 31.04°N, 104.06°WWadi Daya — 34.03°N, 5.41°W

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The named rock units Spathites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spathites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Spathites, 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

23 references

Each of the 124 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. 11 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 Spathites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMammitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kummel and Decker 1954