Catriceras

F.Venturi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- TropidoceratinaePBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Catriceras on record, most of them in the Early 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
17 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Catriceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Catriceras and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Catriceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Juraphyllites7 sites
- Phylloceras7 sites
- Lytoceras6 sites
- Juraphyllites libertus4 sites
- Partschiceras3 sites
- Audaxlytoceras varicosum2 sites
- Calliphylloceras2 sites
- Galaticeras2 sites
- Galaticeras canavarii2 sites
- Gemmellaroceras2 sites
- Gemmellaroceras involutum2 sites
- Gemmellaroceras pseudocarinatum2 sites
- Liospiriferina gryphoidea2 sites
- Paramicroderoceras2 sites
- Radstockiceras2 sites
- Villania latispira2 sites
- Ammonitida1 site
- Antiptychina rothpletzi1 site
- Apoderoceras1 site
- Apringia diptycha1 site
- Arnioceras1 site
- Arnioceras ceratitoides1 site
- Arnioceras rejectum1 site
- Asteroceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Catriceras, 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- Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie)14
- Early Pliensbachian ammonites from the Furlo Pass (Marche, Italy): two new faunas for the middle-western Tethys2
- Ammoniten aus dem Pliensbachium (Carixium und Domerium) von Südamerika1
Each of the 17 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 Catriceras
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- F.Venturi
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Catriceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTropidoceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Venturi 1978