Desmoceratidae

Desmoceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DesmoceratoideaPBDB
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 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2098 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1348 of 2098 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 748 of 2098 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2098 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 55 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 63 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 121 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 214 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 146 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 63 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 63 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 180 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 125 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 93 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 121 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 117 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 93 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 92 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 89 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 79 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 55 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 103 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 26 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 25 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 25 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 25 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 47 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 51 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 22 occurrences141 Mya72.2 Mya147 Mya64 Mya

2,098 occurrences of Desmoceratidae 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

2,098 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

218 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.60°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.53°WBudden Canyon — 40.51°N, 122.49°WBudden Canyon — 40.51°N, 122.45°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.66°WHaida — 53.25°N, 132.00°WHaida — 53.22°N, 132.05°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°WHaida — 54.05°N, 133.07°WHaida — 54.05°N, 133.10°WKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.17°WKennicott — 62.00°N, 143.00°WKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.33°WKennicott — 61.25°N, 142.67°WKennicott — 61.32°N, 143.57°WKennicott — 61.26°N, 145.40°WKennicott — 63.21°N, 147.49°WTaboulouart — 31.21°N, 7.88°WTaboulouart — 31.26°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.87°N, 9.81°WTaboulouart — 30.72°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.61°N, 9.73°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.91°N, 6.49°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.82°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.45°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°ELa Peña — 25.43°N, 100.12°WLa Peña — 25.62°N, 100.46°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.78°WEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°ESaku — 44.07°N, 141.93°ESaku — 44.74°N, 142.01°ESaku — 44.11°N, 142.00°ESaku — 44.02°N, 141.91°ESaku — 44.03°N, 141.95°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.16°EMaiolica — 43.59°N, 12.54°EMaiolica — 43.53°N, 12.58°EMaiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°EMaiolica — 43.37°N, 13.03°EDonji Milanovac — 44.53°N, 22.04°EMiria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.96°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.92°S, 114.10°EMiria — 22.83°S, 114.14°EMiria — 22.63°S, 114.26°EMatanuska — 62.03°N, 147.65°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 62.08°N, 147.83°WMatanuska — 62.01°N, 147.58°WMatanuska — 61.84°N, 148.06°WMatanuska — 61.89°N, 146.86°WMatanuska — 61.51°N, 147.44°WMatanuska — 61.80°N, 147.58°WMatanuska — 61.80°N, 147.70°WMatanuska — 61.85°N, 147.42°WMatanuska — 62.00°N, 147.22°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WCotinguiba — 10.61°S, 36.95°WHikagenosawa — 44.00°N, 143.00°EMzinene — 27.90°S, 32.32°EMzinene — 27.97°S, 32.31°EMzinene — 28.27°S, 32.25°EMzinene — 27.18°S, 32.19°EHilo — 3.67°N, 74.89°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EFolkestone — 51.32°N, 0.32°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WFolkestone — 50.88°N, 0.33°WBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°EPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WPanoche — 37.38°N, 121.32°WPanoche — 37.21°N, 121.22°WPanoche — 36.70°N, 120.84°WPanoche — 36.13°N, 120.53°WPanoche — 35.51°N, 119.99°WLes Graous — 43.84°N, 7.08°ERedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.62°N, 122.12°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.11°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°EChinomigawa — 42.18°N, 142.78°EChinomigawa — 42.91°N, 142.42°E

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The named rock units Desmoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 194 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 727 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Desmoceratidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Desmoceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

839 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,419 sites for Desmoceratidae, 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

340 references

Each of the 2,098 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. 328 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

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Picture of Desmoceratidae

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No 3D scan of Desmoceratidae 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.

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What may have been alongside itDesmoceratoidea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1895