Crioceratitidae
Crioceratitidae is an extinct cephalopod family belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the order Ammonitida.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerisphinctoideaPBDB
- 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 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
577 occurrences of Crioceratitidae 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
577 occurrences- Late Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceous99%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
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
49 formations
- Agrio Formation47
- Totoralillo Formation · Chanarcillo Group45
- Maiolica Formation43
- El Mergueb Formation · M' Chergua Group32
- Nantoco Formation · Chanarcillo Group17
- Taboulouart Formation15
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The named rock units Crioceratitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 278 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crioceratitidae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Crioceratitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
795 taxa- Crioceratites124 sites
- Phyllopachyceras infundibulum72 sites
- Lytoceras60 sites
- Neolissoceras grasianum53 sites
- Euphylloceras thetys46 sites
- Phyllopachyceras winkleri42 sites
- Olcostephanus39 sites
- Barremites37 sites
- Spitidiscus26 sites
- Anahamulina24 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) ponticuli23 sites
- Phylloceras22 sites
- Crioceratites (Emericiceras) thiollierei21 sites
- Plesiospitidiscus21 sites
- Bochianites neocomiensis20 sites
- Crioceratites (Emericiceras)20 sites
- Crioceratites duvalii20 sites
- Lytoceras subfimbriatum20 sites
- Paraspiticeras18 sites
- Plesiospitidiscus subdifficilis18 sites
- Crioceratites loryi17 sites
- Subpulchellia17 sites
- Hamulinites16 sites
- Oosterella15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 372 sites for Crioceratitidae, 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
77 references- L'évolution des ammonites du Valanginien-Hauterivien inférieur du bassin Vocontien et de la plate-form Provençale (sud-est de la France): relations avec la stratigraphie séquentielle et implications biostratigraphiques82
- Le Crétacé inférieur de l'arc subalpin de Castellane entre l'Asse et le Var: Stratigraphy et Sédimentologie49
- Lower Cretaceous ammonoids from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: The late Hauterivian Paraspiticeras and associated faunas44
- Ammonoid and foraminiferal biostratigraphy from uppermost Valanginian to lowermost Barremian of the Jebel Boulahouajeb section (northern Tunisia)32
- Ammonite biostratigraphy of the uppermost Hauterivian in the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain)29
- Lower Barremian ammonite biostratigraphy in the Subbetic Domain (Betic Cordillera, southern Spain)29
- Latest Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous) ammonites from Umbria-Marche Apennines (central Italy)28
- Geología del Área Vallenar-Domeyko, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 120: 64 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.00021
- Geología del Área Carrizal Bajo - Chacritas, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 111: 67 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000. Santiago17
- Early Crioceratites (heteromorphic ammonites) from the lower Hauterivian of south-eastern France: systematics, intraspecific variation and biostratigraphic implications15
- Integrated Lower Cretaceous biostratigraphy of the Bersek Quarry, Gerecse Mountains, Transdanubian Range. Hungary15
- Barremian ammonite faunas from the western High Atlas, Morocco - biostratigraphy and palaoebiogeography15
Each of the 577 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. 65 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 Crioceratitidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Crioceratitidae 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.
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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What may have been alongside itPerisphinctoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wright 1952)