Kosmoclymeniidae

Kosmoclymeniidae is a family in the ammonoid order Clymeniida. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

Kosmoclymeniidae

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ClymeniaceaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Clymeniida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 68 of 68 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 68 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 2 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 5 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 5 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 5 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 5 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 5 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 5 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 5 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 5 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 5 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 5 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 5 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 5 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 4 occurrences372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

68 occurrences of Kosmoclymeniidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

68 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

10 formations

Stourscombe — 50.63°N, 4.49°WWocklum — 51.33°N, 7.87°EErfoud — 31.24°N, 3.82°WErfoud — 31.43°N, 4.22°WGatepost — 50.61°N, 4.37°WDaihua — 25.73°N, 106.37°EDružetić — 44.42°N, 19.81°EPal Grande — 47.00°N, 13.00°EPiker Hills — 18.00°S, 125.50°EVirgin Hills — 18.00°S, 125.50°EVidrieros — 43.08°N, 4.92°W

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The named rock units Kosmoclymeniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kosmoclymeniidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Kosmoclymeniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Kosmoclymeniidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 68 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. 1 further reference is 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 Kosmoclymeniidae

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

No 3D scan of Kosmoclymeniidae 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.

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What may have been alongside itClymeniaceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korn and Price 1987