Collignoniceratidae

Collignoniceratidae is a family of Upper Cretaceous ammonites characterized by typically more or less evolute shells with compressed, oval, or square whorl sections; serrate or entire keels; and dense ribs with one to 5 tubercles.

Collignoniceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthoceratoideaPBDB
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 916 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 916 of 916 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 916 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 91 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 100 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 100 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 108 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 117 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 117 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 114 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 54 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 41 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 8 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 8 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 8 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 8 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 8 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 8 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

916 occurrences of Collignoniceratidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

916 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

99 formations

Mancos Shale — 35.72°N, 106.92°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 34.70°N, 107.88°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°WMancos Shale — 33.15°N, 107.22°WMancos Shale — 32.55°N, 106.57°WMancos Shale — 33.00°N, 106.38°WMancos Shale — 38.77°N, 111.39°WMancos Shale — 35.78°N, 106.94°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WMancos Shale — 34.42°N, 107.41°WMancos Shale — 35.87°N, 106.91°WMancos Shale — 36.40°N, 106.82°WMancos Shale — 34.53°N, 106.88°WMancos Shale — 34.78°N, 108.87°WMancos Shale — 35.21°N, 107.13°WMancos Shale — 35.45°N, 106.20°WSt Lucia — 27.88°S, 32.42°ESt Lucia — 28.03°S, 32.28°ESt Lucia — 28.22°S, 32.30°ESt Lucia — 29.55°S, 30.33°ESt Lucia — 28.06°S, 32.39°ESt Lucia — 28.69°S, 32.02°ESt Lucia — 28.47°S, 32.17°ESt Lucia — 28.43°S, 32.18°ESt Lucia — 28.77°S, 31.75°ESt Lucia — 28.09°S, 32.33°ESt Lucia — 28.45°S, 32.32°ESt Lucia — 27.99°S, 32.41°ECraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.74°N, 0.65°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.72°N, 0.64°ECraie de Villedieu — 47.60°N, 0.49°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WCotinguiba — 10.82°S, 37.04°WCarlile Shale — 42.69°N, 96.83°WCarlile Shale — 42.52°N, 96.82°WCarlile Shale — 45.19°N, 96.75°WCarlile Shale — 43.27°N, 103.55°WCarlile Shale — 43.84°N, 104.23°WCarlile Shale — 43.85°N, 104.57°WCarlile Shale — 42.92°N, 96.78°WCarlile Shale — 43.69°N, 103.21°WCarlile Shale — 42.72°N, 102.13°WCarlile Shale — 44.67°N, 103.85°WCarlile Shale — 43.05°N, 104.48°WCarlile Shale — 39.34°N, 98.47°WCarlile Shale — 43.34°N, 103.44°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.05°N, 99.03°WCarlile Shale — 35.77°N, 105.25°WCarlile Shale — 38.84°N, 104.88°WCarlile Shale — 42.98°N, 102.86°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.63°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.88°N, 117.57°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WChico — 39.81°N, 121.66°WChico — 39.66°N, 121.58°WChico — 39.71°N, 121.94°WChico — 39.79°N, 121.63°WChico — 39.89°N, 121.69°WChico — 39.65°N, 121.60°WMungo River — 4.44°N, 9.49°EMungo River — 4.50°N, 9.49°EMarno-Calcaires à Gauthiericeras — 42.88°N, 2.52°EMarno-Calcaires à Gauthiericeras — 42.87°N, 2.39°ELa Luna — 9.83°N, 70.05°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.35°WLa Luna — 7.68°N, 72.24°WLa Luna — 8.01°N, 70.99°WLa Luna — 7.54°N, 72.05°WLa Luna — 9.65°N, 70.85°WLa Luna — 9.80°N, 72.95°WMerchantville — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.73°WMerchantville — 39.46°N, 75.87°WMerchantville — 40.11°N, 74.74°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WMerchantville — 40.44°N, 74.24°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°ENiobrara — 36.09°N, 104.40°WNiobrara — 36.55°N, 104.36°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.79°WNiobrara — 36.28°N, 104.72°WNiobrara — 36.35°N, 104.60°WNiobrara — 38.27°N, 104.61°WRedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.63°N, 122.12°WRedding — 40.68°N, 122.02°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 2.16°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 52.01°N, 0.01°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.69°N, 0.94°WCarregador de Carreu — 42.17°N, 0.90°EAustin Chalk — 29.35°N, 99.14°WAustin Chalk — 29.12°N, 100.71°WAustin Chalk — 29.82°N, 98.30°WAustin Chalk — 32.59°N, 96.81°WPanoche — 37.38°N, 121.32°WPanoche — 37.17°N, 121.13°WPanoche — 37.04°N, 121.04°WPanoche — 37.18°N, 121.15°WTexanitid Marls — 42.17°N, 0.90°EGrès Verts de Dieulefit — 44.53°N, 5.07°EBlackstone — 50.74°N, 113.85°WBlackstone — 52.00°N, 115.00°WBlackstone — 52.36°N, 116.25°WBlackstone — 53.10°N, 117.45°WBlackstone — 53.74°N, 118.23°WBlackstone — 52.80°N, 116.81°WHinoshima — 32.47°N, 130.47°EHinoshima — 32.39°N, 130.40°EMexcala — 19.43°N, 99.13°WMexcala — 18.02°N, 99.15°WAwgu Ndeaboh Shale — 6.05°N, 7.47°EAwgu Ndeaboh Shale — 6.32°N, 7.55°E

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The named rock units Collignoniceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 237 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Collignoniceratidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Collignoniceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

905 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 624 sites for Collignoniceratidae, and this reads 240 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

156 references

Each of the 916 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. 144 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 content1

Picture of Collignoniceratidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Collignoniceratidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wright and Wright 1951