Ceratites

Ceratites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods. These nektonic carnivores lived in marine habitats in what is now Europe, during the Triassic, from the upper-most Anisian to the lower Ladinian age.

Ceratites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 16 of 160 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 138 of 160 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 6 of 160 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 160 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 8 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 10 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 26 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 32 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 37 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 15 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 14 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 9 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya233.6 Mya252 Mya200 Mya

160 occurrences of Ceratites on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

160 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

16 formations

Ceratites Beds — 51.50°N, 9.83°EGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.50°N, 72.00°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.55°N, 71.78°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.52°N, 72.10°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.52°N, 71.93°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.86°N, 18.45°EBotneheia — 78.48°N, 15.56°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.86°EBotneheia — 77.69°N, 14.90°EWilkowice Beds — 50.45°N, 19.27°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.55°N, 71.78°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.41°N, 72.10°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EBravaisberget — 78.10°N, 13.88°EVikinghogda — 78.48°N, 15.56°EFavret — 39.86°N, 117.49°WKhon Lang — 21.75°N, 106.50°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°ELatemar — 46.35°N, 11.63°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.57°N, 7.48°E

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The named rock units Ceratites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ceratites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

975 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Ceratites, 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

30 references

Each of the 160 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. 18 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 content3

Picture of Ceratites

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

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
ceratites sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-1134

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Paleo3d
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Everything alive alongside itCeratitinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Haan 1825)