Himalayitidae

Himalayitidae is an extinct family of ammonites in the superfamily Perisphinctoidea. The family existed from the Tithonian of the Jurassic to the Berriasian of the Cretaceous. The family is thought to derive from Perisphinctidae.

Aulacosphinctes Uhlig, 1910, a relative of Himalayitidae — not Himalayitidae itself

Not Himalayitidae. This is Aulacosphinctes Uhlig, 1910, a relative — both are Himalayitidae.

Bésairie, Henri-Michel Edouard · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PerisphinctoideaPBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 351 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 283 of 351 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 68 of 351 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 16 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 16 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 16 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 17 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 104 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 99 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 20 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 20 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 8 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 7 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 5 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149.2 Mya139.1 Mya162.1 Mya132 Mya

351 occurrences of Himalayitidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

351 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

29 formations

Vaca Muerta — 38.67°S, 70.00°WVaca Muerta — 38.87°S, 70.20°WVaca Muerta — 38.59°S, 70.13°WVaca Muerta — 37.58°S, 70.41°WVaca Muerta — 39.71°S, 69.75°WVaca Muerta — 39.85°S, 69.83°WLa Caja — 23.63°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.62°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.70°N, 100.87°WLa Caja — 23.68°N, 100.85°WLo Valdés — 33.75°S, 70.03°WLo Valdés — 34.27°S, 69.93°WPunta Moreno — 7.62°S, 78.88°WGuasasa — 22.57°N, 83.87°WGuasasa — 22.60°N, 83.78°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.75°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.55°WChia Gara — 37.01°N, 43.40°EHajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°EHajar — 14.33°N, 48.38°EHajar — 14.55°N, 48.04°EArtemisa — 22.70°N, 83.42°WArtemisa — 22.78°N, 83.25°WArtemisa — 22.72°N, 83.08°WBrechas de Buenavista — 4.17°N, 73.68°WBrechas de Buenavista — 4.13°N, 73.68°WBanos del Flaco — 35.01°S, 70.43°WBugarone — 43.75°N, 13.02°EBaños del Flaco — 35.00°S, 70.42°WSpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°ESpiti Shale — 32.42°N, 78.08°ESidi Kralif — 34.99°N, 9.63°ELes Marno-Calcaires Supérieurs — 35.68°N, 0.92°WBhuj — 23.63°N, 68.95°EBhuj — 23.71°N, 68.96°EPicún Leufú — 38.87°S, 70.20°WChinameca — 18.07°N, 94.63°WShuomo — 28.08°N, 86.00°ESapotal — 7.62°S, 78.88°WStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.11°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EAntalo Limestone — 10.13°N, 38.16°ERogozno — 51.98°N, 19.02°E

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The named rock units Himalayitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Himalayitidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Himalayitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

366 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Himalayitidae, 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

54 references

Each of the 351 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. 42 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 Aulacosphinctes Uhlig, 1910

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bésairie, Henri-Michel Edouard
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Himalayitidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPerisphinctoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1925)