Ceratites spinosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratitesPBDB
- 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 most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ceratites spinosus 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
7 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
- Wilkowice Beds Formation1
- Ceratites Beds Formation · Muschelkalk Group1
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The named rock units Ceratites spinosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ceratites spinosus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Ceratites spinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Ceratites compressus2 sites
- Neogondolella haslachensis2 sites
- Paragondolella2 sites
- Ceratites (Doloceratites) muensteri perkeo1 site
- Ceratites armatus1 site
- Ceratites evolutus1 site
- Ceratites praespinosus1 site
- Gondolella1 site
- Neogondolella cornuta1 site
- Neogondolella mombergensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ceratites spinosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias3
- The Middle Triassic magnetostratigraphy from the Peri-Tethys basin in Poland2
- A new ceratite record from Upper Silesia (Poland)1
- Zur Ceratiten-Stratigraphie im Oberen Muschelkalk (Mitteltrias) bei Göttingen1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Ceratites spinosus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ceratites spinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratites spinosus 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 itCeratites through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1901)