Goniatites

Goniatites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. Hibernicoceras and Hypergoniatites are among related genera.

Goniatites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniatitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 171 occurrencesDevonian — about 6 of 171 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 154 of 171 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 171 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 171 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410–404 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences404–398 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–352 Mya — about 1 occurrence352–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 23 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 86 occurrences333–327 Mya — about 37 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–230 Mya — about 7 occurrences393.47 Mya237 Mya423 Mya230 Mya

171 occurrences of Goniatites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

171 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

31 formations

Chainman — 38.93°N, 115.65°WChainman — 39.25°N, 115.48°WChainman — 38.38°N, 114.95°WChainman — 39.60°N, 113.68°WChainman — 39.28°N, 113.63°WChainman — 39.22°N, 113.70°WChainman — 38.57°N, 113.95°WChainman — 38.78°N, 113.85°WChainman — 39.13°N, 115.57°WChainman — 39.00°N, 114.67°WChainman — 39.88°N, 114.38°WRuddell — 35.74°N, 91.64°WRuddell — 35.77°N, 91.69°WRuddell — 35.93°N, 92.76°WRuddell — 35.96°N, 92.74°WRuddell — 35.73°N, 91.55°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.70°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.65°WZrigat — 31.02°N, 3.73°WMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°EMoorefield — 35.77°N, 91.70°WMoorefield — 35.76°N, 91.58°WMoorefield — 35.81°N, 91.53°WBatesville — 35.75°N, 91.78°WBatesville — 35.76°N, 91.64°WBatesville — 35.77°N, 91.68°WBatesville — 35.91°N, 92.64°WBellavally — 54.42°N, 7.86°WBarnett — 31.48°N, 104.87°WCaney — 34.34°N, 96.95°WCaney — 34.58°N, 96.63°WCaney — 34.39°N, 96.54°WKulmschiefer — 43.78°N, 18.75°ECarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WAlba — 42.84°N, 5.11°WChainman Shale — 39.61°N, 113.68°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WMarcellus — 42.85°N, 78.80°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°WMonsal Dale Limestones — 53.13°N, 1.53°WEyam Limestones — 53.13°N, 1.53°WAbadia — 42.94°N, 4.54°WGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°W

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The named rock units Goniatites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniatites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Goniatites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Goniatites, 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

38 references

Each of the 171 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. 26 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 content2

Picture of Goniatites

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itGoniatitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haan 1825