Valdedorsella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PuzosiinaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
22 occurrences of Valdedorsella on record, most of them in the Early 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
22 occurrences- Early 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
10 formations
- Agrio Formation4
- Luckovska Formation2
- Risan Aneiza Formation2
- El Mergueb Formation · M' Chergua Group2
- Oued Tidzi Formation1
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation1
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The named rock units Valdedorsella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Valdedorsella and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Valdedorsella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Hypacanthoplites3 sites
- Tetragonites (Tetragonites) duvalianus3 sites
- Uhligella3 sites
- Zuercherella zuercheri3 sites
- Acanthohoplites2 sites
- Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis2 sites
- Aconeceras nisum2 sites
- Beudanticeras (Beudanticeras) convergens2 sites
- Desmoceras2 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum2 sites
- Eogaudryceras (Eotetragonites) raspaili2 sites
- Hamites2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites elegans2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites milletianus2 sites
- Melchiorites melchioris2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Phylloceras2 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae2 sites
- Protetragonites2 sites
- Roberticeras dupinianum2 sites
- Tetragonites2 sites
- Tetragramma2 sites
- Ammonoidea indet.1 site
- Anagaudryceras sacya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Valdedorsella, 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
15 references- Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina: the Hauterivian neocomitid genus Hoplitocrioceras (Giovine, 1950)4
- Ammonoid and foraminiferal biostratigraphy from uppermost Valanginian to lowermost Barremian of the Jebel Boulahouajeb section (northern Tunisia)2
- Aptian-early Cenomanian ammonites from north Sinai, Egypt: systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy2
- Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Czechoslovakian Western Carpathians2
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule IX (Aptien)2
- Aptian-Campanian ammonites of Hungary1
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- The Hauterivian ammonite succession in the Central Apennines, Maiolica formation (Petrano Mt., Cagli). Preliminary results1
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentary dynamics of the Lower Cretaceous deposits on the northern side of the western High Atlas (Morocco)1
- Renz, 19821
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman1
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. Introduction, Stratigraphy1
Each of the 22 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. 3 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 content0
No picture of Valdedorsella 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 Valdedorsella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Valdedorsella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPuzosiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Breistroffer 1947