Thomasites

Thomasites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudotissotiidaePBDB
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 80 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 80 of 80 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 7 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 5 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

80 occurrences of Thomasites 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

80 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

17 formations

Pindiga — 11.07°N, 11.80°EPindiga — 10.73°N, 11.68°EPindiga — 10.28°N, 11.32°EPindiga — 9.98°N, 10.95°EPindiga — 9.29°N, 12.22°EDukul — 9.73°N, 11.82°EDukul — 9.40°N, 11.95°EDukul — 9.91°N, 11.85°EDukul — 7.33°N, 8.75°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EAbu Qada — 28.68°N, 32.42°EEze-Aku — 6.42°N, 7.80°EZebbag — 34.15°N, 9.08°EFika Shale — 10.94°N, 11.45°EGongila — 11.03°N, 11.35°EGongila — 10.94°N, 11.45°EWata — 30.38°N, 33.52°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WBahloul — 34.13°N, 9.08°EZoo Baba — 19.83°N, 12.22°ERhoundjaïa — 33.34°N, 0.83°EChispa Summit — 31.06°N, 105.25°WMancos Shale — 36.08°N, 111.07°WBaba Darves — 36.63°N, 69.75°EOjinaga — 30.80°N, 105.28°WNatih — 22.33°N, 57.33°E

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The named rock units Thomasites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thomasites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Thomasites, 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

26 references

Each of the 80 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. 14 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 Thomasites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thomasites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itPseudotissotiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pervinquiére 1907