Bonarellia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BonarelliinaePBDB
- 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 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 159 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Bonarellia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
23 occurrencesThese 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.
Bonarellia and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Bonarellia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Brightia salvadori5 sites
- Campylites secula5 sites
- Hecticoceras lairense5 sites
- Kosmoceras spinosum5 sites
- Brightia brighti4 sites
- Euaspidoceras ferrugineum4 sites
- Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras)4 sites
- Lunuloceras lunula4 sites
- Lunuloceras lunuloides4 sites
- Orbignyceras paulowi4 sites
- Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum4 sites
- Oxycerites subcostarius4 sites
- Sindeites4 sites
- Berniceras inconspicuum3 sites
- Brightia sveva3 sites
- Calliphylloceras demidoffi3 sites
- Choffatia3 sites
- Cosmoceras duncani3 sites
- Fehlmannites jurensis3 sites
- Kinkeliniceras angygaster3 sites
- Lunuloceras grossouvrei3 sites
- Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides3 sites
- Metapeltoceras baylei3 sites
- Oppelia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Bonarellia, 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
3 references- Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung13
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule II (Bathonien, Callovien). Pl. VI-XXXIII6
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires4
Each of the 23 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Bonarellia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bonarellia 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBonarelliinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1898