Yezoites

Yezoites is an extinct genus of ammonites placed in the family Scaphitidae. The genus is known lived during the Upper Cretaceous and was first described in 1910. The genus contains five species, Y. bladenensis, Y. orbignyi, Y. planus, Y. puerculus, and Y. subevolutus.

Yezoites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OtoscaphitinaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 205 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 204 of 205 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 44 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 51 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 51 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 15 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 14 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 13 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106.3 Mya83.6 Mya114 Mya71.4 Mya

205 occurrences of Yezoites 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

205 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

31 formations

Saku — 44.07°N, 141.93°ESaku — 44.74°N, 142.01°ESaku — 44.11°N, 142.00°ESaku — 44.02°N, 141.91°ESaku — 44.03°N, 141.95°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.16°ESaku — 44.06°N, 142.98°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.15°ERedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.55°N, 122.18°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.20°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.25°WKashima — 43.29°N, 141.97°EKashima — 43.23°N, 141.99°ESeabee — 69.25°N, 153.82°WSeabee — 68.84°N, 150.55°WSeabee — 69.35°N, 154.07°WSeabee — 69.32°N, 153.84°WSeabee — 69.32°N, 154.04°WSeabee — 68.83°N, 151.39°WSeabee — 69.04°N, 152.07°WBykov — 50.16°N, 155.26°EBykov — 47.29°N, 142.57°EMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 61.82°N, 147.45°WMatanuska — 61.92°N, 147.62°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 61.86°N, 148.12°WHaborogawa — 44.08°N, 141.94°EHaborogawa — 44.27°N, 142.00°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.64°N, 0.75°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WHikagenosawa — 44.11°N, 142.00°EOguwa — 33.25°N, 132.75°EDel Rio Clay — 31.44°N, 97.41°WDel Rio Clay — 31.67°N, 97.17°WDel Rio Clay — 31.48°N, 97.29°WUpper Chalk — 51.56°N, 1.34°WUpper Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.57°WUpper Chalk — 51.26°N, 0.33°WPenzhina — 61.66°N, 164.01°EPenzhina — 62.35°N, 165.29°EPenzhina — 62.34°N, 165.29°EFurushiroyama — 33.20°N, 132.51°EFurushiroyama — 33.21°N, 132.55°EMikasa — 43.25°N, 142.00°EMarno-Calcaires à Gauthiericeras — 42.88°N, 2.38°EFunks — 38.90°N, 122.26°WSites — 38.74°N, 122.20°WMarnes bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°EMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WArnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.78°EGreenhorn Limestone — 44.73°N, 103.73°W

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The named rock units Yezoites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Yezoites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 150 sites for Yezoites, 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

36 references

Each of the 205 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. 24 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 Yezoites

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

No 3D scan of Yezoites 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.