Adrianitidae

Adrianitidae is a family in the Adrianitoidea, a superfamily of ammonites in the cephalopod order, Goniatitida, known from the Middle Pennsylvanian to the Middle Permian.

Adrianites distefanoi (Gemmellaro, 1887), a relative of Adrianitidae — not Adrianitidae itself

Not Adrianitidae. This is Adrianites distefanoi (Gemmellaro, 1887), a relative — both are Adrianitidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AdrianitoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 23 of 279 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 256 of 279 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 279 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 4 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 5 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 6 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 6 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 3 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 3 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 12 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 12 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 12 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 25 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 27 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 27 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 27 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 15 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 13 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 13 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 22 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 27 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307 Mya254.14 Mya316 Mya251 Mya

279 occurrences of Adrianitidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

279 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

69 formations

Kyzyldzhilga — 37.72°N, 74.54°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.81°N, 74.53°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.80°N, 74.00°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.62°N, 74.86°EKyzyldzhilga — 38.02°N, 74.21°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.92°N, 73.67°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.80°N, 74.64°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.70°N, 74.80°EKochusu — 37.80°N, 74.40°EKochusu — 37.80°N, 74.64°EKochusu — 37.95°N, 73.67°EKochusu — 37.72°N, 74.54°EKochusu — 38.05°N, 73.76°EKochusu — 38.06°N, 74.06°EKochusu — 37.80°N, 74.00°EKochusu — 37.70°N, 74.80°EKochusu — 37.81°N, 74.53°EKochusu — 37.94°N, 74.33°EKochusu — 37.62°N, 74.86°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.24°N, 103.44°WGaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WGaptank — 30.36°N, 103.13°WQulqula — 35.95°N, 44.75°EHamrat Duru — 23.41°N, 57.40°ECathedral Mountain — 30.30°N, 103.31°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.33°N, 103.24°WFanjiatun — 43.80°N, 125.69°ECutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°WChelamchin — 38.53°N, 70.61°EChelamchin — 38.69°N, 70.89°EPalo Quemado — 26.37°N, 102.94°WPalo Quemado — 26.33°N, 102.90°WWord — 30.35°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.36°N, 103.28°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°WAktasty — 50.36°N, 57.58°ECaddo Creek — 31.84°N, 99.01°WAtahoc — 9.46°S, 124.60°ETae Wei — 9.77°S, 124.55°ELas Sardinas — 26.31°N, 102.91°WAl Jil — 23.09°N, 58.32°ELenox Hills — 30.26°N, 103.34°WLenox Hills — 30.21°N, 103.40°WSkinner Ranch — 30.27°N, 103.33°WSkinner Ranch — 30.25°N, 103.37°WBaigendzhin — 56.33°N, 56.20°EBaigendzhin — 52.55°N, 56.67°EBaigendzhin — 51.40°N, 57.20°EBaigendzhi — 56.33°N, 56.20°EBaigendzhi — 56.64°N, 56.66°EIola — 36.10°N, 96.21°WIola — 36.31°N, 96.08°WWewoka — 36.28°N, 96.34°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.38°WWewoka — 35.72°N, 96.00°W

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The named rock units Adrianitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adrianitidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Adrianitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,774 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 194 sites for Adrianitidae, 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

61 references

Each of the 279 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. 49 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 Adrianites distefanoi (Gemmellaro, 1887)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adrianitidae 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

Licence
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. Schindewolf 1931