Tetragonites

Tetragonites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetragonitidaePBDB
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 263 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 40 of 273 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 273 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 273 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 87 of 273 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 146 of 273 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 273 occurrences345–336 Mya — about 40 occurrences127–117 Mya — about 5 occurrences117–108 Mya — about 32 occurrences108–99 Mya — about 55 occurrences99–89 Mya — about 48 occurrences89–80 Mya — about 51 occurrences80–70 Mya — about 30 occurrences70–61 Mya — about 11 occurrences335.9 Mya72.2 Mya345 Mya61 Mya

273 occurrences of Tetragonites 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

273 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

53 formations

Družetić — 44.42°N, 19.81°EHaida — 53.25°N, 132.00°WHaida — 53.22°N, 132.05°WHaida — 54.05°N, 133.10°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.91°N, 6.49°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.58°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.45°ESaku — 44.07°N, 141.93°ESaku — 44.02°N, 141.91°ESaku — 44.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 44.03°N, 141.95°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.08°N, 142.00°EChainman — 39.60°N, 113.68°WChainman — 39.28°N, 113.63°WChainman — 39.18°N, 113.72°WChainman — 38.78°N, 113.85°WChainman — 39.00°N, 114.67°WSanta Marta — 64.23°S, 56.62°WSanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.57°WKrasnoyarka — 48.68°N, 142.66°EKrasnoyarka — 47.37°N, 142.50°EKrasnoyarka — 47.32°N, 142.50°EKrasnoyarka — 48.67°N, 142.64°EMiddle Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.40°N, 141.83°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.27°N, 141.75°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°EBykov — 50.16°N, 155.26°EBykov — 48.71°N, 142.67°EBykov — 48.67°N, 142.60°ERagged Valley Shale — 36.33°N, 120.57°WRagged Valley Shale — 36.21°N, 120.45°WRagged Valley Shale — 36.21°N, 120.45°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.21°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.24°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 62.01°N, 147.58°WMatanuska — 61.84°N, 147.41°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WChinomigawa — 42.18°N, 142.78°EOtamatea — 36.20°S, 174.29°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.22°N, 5.53°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.73°N, 6.90°EMoreno — 36.22°N, 120.12°WMoreno — 37.85°N, 121.71°WMoreno — 37.03°N, 120.95°WHaslam — 49.18°N, 124.33°WHaslam — 49.19°N, 124.15°WHaslam — 49.08°N, 124.01°WSalinas — 14.19°S, 12.33°ESalinas — 14.25°S, 12.36°ETata Limestone — 47.65°N, 18.31°EMarnes bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°ERio Hatillo — 19.17°N, 70.67°WKotick Point — 64.17°S, 57.75°W

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The named rock units Tetragonites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetragonites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,241 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 223 sites for Tetragonites, 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

82 references

Each of the 273 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. 70 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 Tetragonites

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kossmat 1895)