Garantiana

Garantiana is a genus of ammonites from the Bajocian stage at the beginning of the Middle Jurassic, included in the family Stephanoceratidae.

Garantiana

Daderot · CC0 · via Wikipedia/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
GarantianinaePBDB
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 most 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 60 of 60 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 4 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 4 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 5 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 9 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171.4 Mya164.8 Mya

60 occurrences of Garantiana on record, most of them in the Middle 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

60 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

10 formations

Parkinsonian-Oolith — 48.86°N, 10.34°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.89°EDjangura — 43.97°N, 41.76°EDjangura — 43.95°N, 41.51°EChaloi — 39.75°N, 54.50°EChaloi — 39.91°N, 54.19°EChaloi — 39.80°N, 54.38°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EDalichai — 37.09°N, 56.74°EDalichai — 37.15°N, 57.15°EDalichai — 36.39°N, 54.29°ETsudakhar — 42.65°N, 46.93°ETsudakhar — 41.97°N, 47.90°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WOolithe de Bayeux — 49.35°N, 0.81°WKumukh — 42.65°N, 46.93°EOolithe ferrugineuse de Bayeux — 49.03°N, 0.42°W

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The named rock units Garantiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Garantiana and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Garantiana and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Garantiana, 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

13 references

Each of the 60 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Garantiana

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itGarantianinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maschke 1907