Kossmaticeratidae

Kossmaticeratidae is an extinct ammonoid family belonging to the order Ammonitida.

Kossmaticeratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DesmoceratoideaPBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 57 of 571 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 514 of 571 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 571 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 12 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 9 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 7 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 8 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 9 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 9 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 14 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 27 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 22 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 22 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 22 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 22 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 22 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 22 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 84 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 90 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 90 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 38 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya121 Mya65 Mya

571 occurrences of Kossmaticeratidae 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

571 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

52 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.17°S, 57.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.26°S, 56.71°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.77°WMiria — 22.77°S, 114.18°EMiria — 22.68°S, 114.24°EMiria — 22.96°S, 114.08°EMiria — 22.92°S, 114.10°EMiria — 22.83°S, 114.14°EMiria — 22.72°S, 114.25°EMiria — 22.63°S, 114.26°EQuiriquina — 36.72°S, 73.12°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 72.97°WQuiriquina — 36.61°S, 73.06°WQuiriquina — 33.36°S, 71.68°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WSt Lucia — 28.77°S, 31.75°ESt Lucia — 27.88°S, 32.42°ESt Lucia — 28.03°S, 32.28°ESt Lucia — 28.43°S, 32.18°ESt Lucia — 28.45°S, 32.32°ESt Lucia — 28.06°S, 32.39°ESt Lucia — 27.99°S, 32.41°ESt Lucia — 28.21°S, 32.47°ESt Lucia — 28.23°S, 32.42°ESt Lucia — 28.45°S, 32.31°EUpper Lopez de Bertodano — 64.27°S, 56.73°WOtamatea — 36.20°S, 174.29°EHaida — 53.25°N, 132.00°WHaida — 54.05°N, 133.10°WHaida — 53.23°N, 132.00°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°WKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.33°WKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.17°WKennicott — 61.25°N, 142.67°WKennicott — 63.21°N, 147.49°WBudden Canyon — 40.45°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.52°N, 122.46°WFuentes — 52.55°S, 72.03°WFuentes — 52.65°S, 71.97°WFuentes — 52.45°S, 70.97°WHikagenosawa — 44.00°N, 143.00°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.40°N, 141.83°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°EMaringi — 40.95°S, 175.67°EMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.97°EMatanuska — 62.03°N, 147.65°WMatanuska — 61.51°N, 147.44°WMatanuska — 61.83°N, 147.42°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WRio Mayer — 49.40°S, 71.82°WRio Mayer — 49.38°S, 71.72°WConway Siltstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°ERio Blanco — 53.50°S, 71.42°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.74°S, 114.19°ESnow Hill Island — 63.00°S, 57.00°WSnow Hill Island — 63.90°S, 57.50°WSnow Hill Island — 63.88°S, 57.61°WMiddle Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°EMiria Calcarenite — 22.67°S, 114.25°E

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The named rock units Kossmaticeratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 136 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kossmaticeratidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Kossmaticeratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

712 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 387 sites for Kossmaticeratidae, and this reads 240 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

88 references

Each of the 571 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. 76 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 Kossmaticeratidae

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

No 3D scan of Kossmaticeratidae 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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What may have been alongside itDesmoceratoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922