Texanites (Texanites) americanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Texanites (Texanites)PBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Texanites (Texanites) americanus 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Texanites (Texanites) americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Texanites (Texanites) americanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Texanites (Texanites) americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Anomia2 sites
- Baculites asper2 sites
- Baculites codyensis2 sites
- Cladoceramus undulatoplicatus2 sites
- Clioscaphites saxitonianus2 sites
- Cordiceramus cordiformis2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Placenticeras2 sites
- Placenticeras syrtale2 sites
- Platyceramus platinus2 sites
- Baculites1 site
- Clioscaphites choteauensis1 site
- Clioscaphites vermiformis1 site
- Glyptoxoceras crispatum1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Mytiloides stantoni1 site
- Placenticeras paraplanum1 site
- Protexanites1 site
- Pseudoperna1 site
- Pseudoschloenbachia (Pseudoschloenbachia) bertrandi1 site
- Pseudoschloenbachia (Pseudoschloenbachia) umbulazi1 site
- Scaphites (Scaphites) depressus1 site
- Scaphites binneyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Texanites (Texanites) americanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation in the Raton basin, New Mexico2
- Ammonite faunas, biostratigraphy, and sequence stratigraphy of the Coniacian-Santonian of the Corbières (NE Pyrénées)1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Texanites (Texanites) americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Texanites (Texanites) americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Texanites (Texanites) americanus 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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What may have been alongside itTexanites (Texanites) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lasswitz 1904)