Kosmoceratidae

Kosmoceratidae is an extinct ammonite family from the Callovian to Early Cretaceous.

Kosmoceratidae

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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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 158 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 158 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 148 of 158 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 9 of 158 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 158 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–165 Mya — about 28 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 91 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 31 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–153 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya137.05 Mya203 Mya131 Mya

158 occurrences of Kosmoceratidae 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

158 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

22 formations

Chinitna — 60.17°N, 152.63°WChinitna — 59.67°N, 153.39°WChinitna — 59.76°N, 153.26°W"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EStaffin Shale — 57.65°N, 6.24°WMarnes jaunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°ETuxedni — 59.77°N, 153.26°WTuxedni — 59.72°N, 153.15°WTuxedni — 59.72°N, 153.33°WTuxedni — 60.20°N, 152.62°WSmithers — 54.55°N, 128.48°WCroûte ferrugineuse — 46.65°N, 4.87°EMarnes grumeleuses — 46.57°N, 4.90°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.18°WOxford Clay — 52.60°N, 0.21°WGerpigem — 44.27°N, 40.17°EGerpigem — 44.08°N, 40.93°EGerpigem — 44.08°N, 40.95°EAshman — 54.78°N, 127.58°WMarnes brunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°EShelikof — 57.31°N, 156.58°WCerritos Bayos — 22.56°S, 69.14°WColfax — 39.13°N, 120.95°WColfax — 39.09°N, 120.96°WAgardfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.90°EOgrodzieniec Glauconitic Marl — 50.46°N, 19.52°EDalles à Bryozoaires — 47.32°N, 5.00°ECalcaires roux — 47.03°N, 4.83°EStaffin Bay — 57.19°N, 6.11°WGerpigem- Mezmayskaya — 44.13°N, 40.80°E

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The named rock units Kosmoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kosmoceratidae and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

437 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Kosmoceratidae, 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

24 references

Each of the 158 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. 12 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 Kosmoceratidae

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

No 3D scan of Kosmoceratidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haug 1887