Kossmatella (Kossmatella)
No picture of Kossmatella (Kossmatella) 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 Kossmatella (Kossmatella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KossmatellaPBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Kossmatella (Kossmatella) 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Kossmatella (Kossmatella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kossmatella (Kossmatella) and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Kossmatella (Kossmatella) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum2 sites
- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum2 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum2 sites
- Perissoptera2 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae2 sites
- Polydiadema2 sites
- Terebratula2 sites
- Uhligella balmensis2 sites
- Aioloceras1 site
- Aioloceras besairiei1 site
- Ammonoceratites1 site
- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Anagaudryceras pulchrum1 site
- Anagaudryceras sacya1 site
- Anatina1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Aplopsammia collignoni1 site
- Arca1 site
- Argonauticeras belliseptatum1 site
- Brancoceras (Brancoceras) carinatum1 site
- Brancoceras (Brancoceras) helcion1 site
- Calostylopsis sakalavensis1 site
- Cerithium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kossmatella (Kossmatella), 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
3 references- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Gaudryceratidae1
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires1
- Nouvelles données sur l'Albien de la Chartreuse et du Vercors1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Kossmatella (Kossmatella) 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 Kossmatella (Kossmatella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kossmatella (Kossmatella) 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itKossmatella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacob 1907