Karangatites
Karangatites is a genus of ceratitid ammonites included in the Meekoceratidae, found in the upper Lower Triassic, Olenkean stage, of far eastern Russia.
No picture of Karangatites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Karangatites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeekoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 245.19 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Karangatites on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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.
Karangatites and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Karangatites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Ammobaculites1 site
- Bronzoria taskrestensis1 site
- Chiosella gondolelloides1 site
- Cornuspira1 site
- Cratognathus sp.1 site
- Dictyoconites1 site
- Gladigondolella1 site
- Glomospira1 site
- Grambergia olenekensis1 site
- Leptochondria albertii1 site
- Meandrospira1 site
- Meleagrinella1 site
- Paracrochordiceras1 site
- Paratrematoceras1 site
- Rectocornuspira1 site
- Syringoceras1 site
- Triassospathodus homeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Karangatites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Dagis et al., 19962
- The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Anisian Stage: Deşli Caira Hill, North Dobrogea, Romania1
- Zakharov, 19781
- [Sections of the Trias from the upper River Kolym and northern Priochotya]1
Each of the 5 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. 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 content0
No picture of Karangatites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Karangatites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Karangatites 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMeekoceratidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov 1968