Agoniatites

Agoniatites is a genus of primitive ammonoids belonging to the order Agoniatitida and family Agoniatitidae.

Agoniatites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 86 occurrencesDevonian — about 86 of 86 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 86 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 24 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 24 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 18 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 7 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 7 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393.47 Mya – 387.95 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

86 occurrences of Agoniatites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

86 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

10 formations

Srbsko — 49.50°N, 14.33°ESrbsko — 50.04°N, 14.40°ESrbsko — 49.99°N, 14.27°ESrbsko — 49.96°N, 14.24°ESrbsko — 49.94°N, 14.19°ESrbsko — 49.94°N, 14.14°ESrbsko — 49.96°N, 14.13°EChotec — 49.50°N, 14.33°EChotec — 50.04°N, 14.40°EMarcellus — 42.99°N, 76.01°WMarcellus — 42.97°N, 76.14°WUnion Springs — 42.80°N, 74.76°WUnion Springs — 42.86°N, 74.87°WTrebotov — 50.04°N, 14.40°ETrebotov — 50.03°N, 14.33°EHeadless — 70.00°N, 95.00°WDenay Limestone — 39.98°N, 116.27°WCherry Valley — 42.80°N, 74.88°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.44°WMcCann Hill — 65.02°N, 141.21°W

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The named rock units Agoniatites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agoniatites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Agoniatites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Agoniatites, 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

11 references

Each of the 86 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

Media content2

Picture of Agoniatites

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itAgoniatitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek 1877)