Haploceratidae

The Haploceratidae is the type family of the Haploceratoidea, a superfamily in the ammonitina; which according to Donovan et al. (1981) can be derived from the Taramelliceratinae, a subfamily of the Oppeliidae.

Cadomoceras Munier-Chalmas, 1892, a relative of Haploceratidae — not Haploceratidae itself

Not Haploceratidae. This is Cadomoceras Munier-Chalmas, 1892, a relative — both are Haploceratidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
HaploceratoideaPBDB
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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 739 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 171 of 739 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 566 of 739 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 5 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 39 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 49 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 43 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 32 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 28 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 22 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 18 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 101 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 137 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 126 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 33 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 33 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 33 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 29 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya132.6 Mya172 Mya120 Mya

739 occurrences of Haploceratidae 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

739 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

44 formations

Miravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WVaca Muerta — 38.67°S, 70.00°WVaca Muerta — 37.33°S, 70.33°WVaca Muerta — 39.22°S, 70.07°WVaca Muerta — 39.19°S, 69.67°WVaca Muerta — 35.08°S, 69.75°WVaca Muerta — 38.59°S, 70.13°WVaca Muerta — 39.71°S, 69.75°WVaca Muerta — 39.53°S, 69.83°WVaca Muerta — 39.85°S, 69.83°WRossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°ERossfeld — 47.79°N, 14.52°EBugarone — 43.75°N, 13.02°EMaiolica — 43.59°N, 12.54°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 43.53°N, 12.58°EGuasasa — 22.60°N, 83.78°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.75°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.55°WBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.50°EPieniny Limestone — 49.42°N, 20.30°EPieniny Limestone — 49.43°N, 20.03°ELa Caja — 23.63°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.68°N, 100.86°WLa Caja — 23.58°N, 100.82°WEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°EBiancone — 45.58°N, 11.12°ELadce — 49.03°N, 18.28°EMogyorósdomb Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EPálihálás Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.50°EArtemisa — 22.70°N, 83.42°WArtemisa — 22.78°N, 83.25°WArtemisa — 22.72°N, 83.08°WTollo — 38.07°N, 1.81°WChia Gara — 37.01°N, 43.40°EHangende–Bankkalke — 47.93°N, 8.94°ELes Marnes Intermédiaires — 35.68°N, 0.92°WHajar — 14.55°N, 48.04°EMraznica — 49.03°N, 18.28°ESpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°EBrasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°E

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The named rock units Haploceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 457 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Haploceratidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 576 sites for Haploceratidae, 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

83 references

Each of the 739 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. 71 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 Cadomoceras Munier-Chalmas, 1892

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GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Haploceratidae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1884