Burckhardtites

Lozo, F · 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
- DesmoceratinaePBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Burckhardtites 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
18 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
7 formations
- La Peña Formation8
- La Péna Formation3
- Mural Formation2
- Hammett Shale Formation1
- Hammett Formation1
- Valle Grande Formation1
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The named rock units Burckhardtites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Burckhardtites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Burckhardtites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Cheloniceras8 sites
- Dufrenoyia8 sites
- Colombiceras7 sites
- Dufrenoyia justinae5 sites
- Dufrenoyia scotti5 sites
- Colombiceras spathi3 sites
- Gargasiceras3 sites
- Pseudohaploceras3 sites
- Acanthohoplites2 sites
- Cheloniceras cornuelianum2 sites
- Eodouvilleiceras adkinsi2 sites
- Epicheloniceras2 sites
- Hypacanthohoplites acutecostum2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites2 sites
- Immunitoceras2 sites
- Immunitoceras immunitum2 sites
- Penaceras rursiradiatus2 sites
- Procheloniceras albrechtiaustriae2 sites
- Pseudohaploceras reesidei2 sites
- Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis1 site
- Ancyloceras mantelli1 site
- Beudanticeras mullerriedi1 site
- Caseyella aguilerae1 site
- Cheloniceras buxtorfi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Burckhardtites, 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
8 references- Ammonite biostratigraphy of two stratigraphic sections of the La Peña Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) in Nuevo León State, northeast Mexico8
- Lower Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonites from the basal strata of the La Peña Formation of Nuevo León State, northeast Mexico: biochronostratigraphic implications2
- Upper Aptian-Lower Albian Mural Formation: stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and depositional cycles on the Sonoran shelf, northern Mexico2
- Renz, 19822
- Sedimentological and paleoecological aspects of the Aptian transgressive event of Sierra del Rosario, Durango, northeast Mexico1
- Texas Cretaceous ammonites and nautiloids1
- Lower Albian and Aptian (Cretaceous) ammonites of Texas1
- Étude biostratigraphique des Ammonites (Jurassique supérieur et Crétacé) du Mexique (Centre et Nord)1
Each of the 18 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 content1

Picture of Burckhardtites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Lozo, F
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Burckhardtites 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.
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What may have been alongside itDesmoceratinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Humphrey 1949