Kossmaticeras (Karapadites)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KossmaticerasPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) on record, most of them in the Late 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
5 occurrences- Late 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amphidiadema denticulata1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites bailyi1 site
- Baculites rectus1 site
- Caldeonites validus1 site
- Didymoceras1 site
- Eupachydiscus1 site
- Gaudryceras kayei1 site
- Gaudryceratinae1 site
- Groussouvrites gemmatus1 site
- Hauericeras1 site
- Inoceramidae1 site
- Inoceramus1 site
- Isabelidinium belfastense1 site
- Isabelidinium cretaceum1 site
- Kitchinites (Neopuzosia) japonicus1 site
- Kitchinites angolaensis1 site
- Kossmaticeratidae1 site
- Menuites1 site
- Natalites1 site
- Neithea1 site
- Nelsoniella1 site
- Neograhamites1 site
- Neograhamites taylori1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kossmaticeras (Karapadites), 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
2 references- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Kossmaticeratidae4
- Campanian-Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) stratigraphy of the James Ross Island area, Antarctica1
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
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No picture of Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) 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 Kossmaticeras (Karapadites), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) 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.
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What may have been alongside itKossmaticeras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Collignon 1954)