Cymbites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CymbitidaePBDB
- 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 7.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 185.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya.
50 occurrences of Cymbites on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
50 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
5 formations
- Lower Lias Formation · Lias Group5
- Fannin Formation · Maude Group4
- Inklin Formation · Laberge Group2
- Charmouth Mudstone Formation · Lias Group1
- Oust Formation1
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The named rock units Cymbites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cymbites and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Cymbites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Metacymbites centriglobus24 sites
- Androgynoceras (Oistoceras) figulinum12 sites
- Liparoceras (Becheiceras) gallicum7 sites
- Lytoceras fimbriatum6 sites
- Juraphyllites libertus5 sites
- Tragophylloceras loscombi5 sites
- Androgynoceras capricornus4 sites
- Arnioceras4 sites
- Lucina4 sites
- Prodactylioceras davoei4 sites
- Promicroceras4 sites
- Promicroceras planicosta4 sites
- Aegoceras (Oistoceras) colubrinum3 sites
- Amaltheus stokesi3 sites
- Anningella3 sites
- Calliphylloceras bicicolae3 sites
- Gervillella lanceolata3 sites
- Juraphyllites3 sites
- Palaeonucula navis3 sites
- Paltechioceras romanicum3 sites
- Phylloceras hebertinum3 sites
- Plagiostoma giganteum3 sites
- Protogrammoceras (Matteiceras) diornatum3 sites
- Semuridia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Cymbites, 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
14 references- Les ammonites du Carixien des Causses (France)26
- The Liassic Ammonite Faunas of the Stowell Park Borehole5
- Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia4
- A systematic account of the ammonite faunas of the Obtusum Zone (Sinemurian Stage, Lower Jurassic) from Marston Magna, Somerset, UK3
- Liassic ammonites from the central and eastern Pontides (Ankara and Kelkit areas, Turkey)2
- Late Triassic and early Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Felixkirk Borehole, North Yorkshire2
- Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) ammonoids from the boulders of the Greek Quarry, central Crimea1
- Loligosepia (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Lower Jurassic of the Dorset coast, England1
- Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne1
- Das Makrobenthos der Causses (Südfrankreich): Palökologie einer mittel- bis oberliassischen Mergelfolge1
- A new ammonite genus from the Lower Jurassic (upper Sinemurian) of Dorset, England1
- Early Jurassic evolution of the northern Stikinian arc: evidence from the Laberge Group, northwestern British Columbia1
Each of the 50 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. 2 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 Cymbites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cymbites 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 itCymbitidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1878