Neocomites

Neocomites is a genus of ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous, Berriasian to Hauterivian, and type genus for the Neocomitidae.

Neocomites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeocomitinaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 663 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 663 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 659 of 663 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 4 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 159 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 193 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 167 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 33 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 33 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 33 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 31 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya119.57 Mya162 Mya112 Mya

663 occurrences of Neocomites 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

663 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

31 formations

Rossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°ERossfeld — 47.79°N, 14.52°EMiravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°ETaraises — 24.59°N, 101.52°WTaraises — 24.81°N, 101.70°WTaraises — 24.68°N, 101.60°WTaraises — 24.61°N, 101.57°WLadce — 49.03°N, 18.28°EGiumal Sandstone — 32.28°N, 78.02°EGiumal Sandstone — 32.42°N, 78.08°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 43.53°N, 12.58°EBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°ESabinal — 17.09°N, 97.50°WGrand Essert — 45.98°N, 5.60°ESidi Lhousseine — 31.21°N, 7.88°WBodzanow — 51.98°N, 19.02°ECalcaire Inferieur — 32.38°N, 9.25°WBiancone — 45.58°N, 11.12°EAbundancia — 27.47°S, 70.25°WMogyorósdomb Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EMraznica — 49.03°N, 18.33°EKaliste — 49.03°N, 18.33°EArgiles Brunes — 32.38°N, 9.25°WBrasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°EWłocławek — 51.50°N, 20.06°EAground Ouadar — 31.21°N, 7.88°WHajar — 14.55°N, 48.04°EBajada del Agria — 38.47°S, 70.00°W

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The named rock units Neocomites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 562 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neocomites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Neocomites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

413 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 351 sites for Neocomites, 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

54 references

Each of the 663 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. 42 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 content2

Picture of Neocomites

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itNeocomitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Uhlig 1905