Cymatoceratidae

Cymatoceratidae

Uncredited · 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
NautiloideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 5 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161.5 Mya85.7 Mya167 Mya82 Mya

9 occurrences of Cymatoceratidae on record. 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

9 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

4 formations

Sarcheshmah — 37.72°N, 56.12°ESarcheshmah — 37.78°N, 56.33°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EChari — 23.62°N, 69.15°ESanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.12°E

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The named rock units Cymatoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cymatoceratidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Cymatoceratidae

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

No 3D scan of Cymatoceratidae 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 itNautiloidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1927)