Siemiradzkia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerisphinctidaePBDB
- 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 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Siemiradzkia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
25 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
7 formations
- Tangiduval Formation7
- "Berching" Formation6
- Meulam Formation4
- Varians Oolith Formation2
- Tuxedni Formation1
- Buqu Formation1
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The named rock units Siemiradzkia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Siemiradzkia and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Siemiradzkia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Procerites (Siemiradzkia) bucharica6 sites
- Procerites5 sites
- Procerites (Siemiradzkia) aurigera5 sites
- Procerites imitator5 sites
- Oxycerites (Oxycerites) yeovilensis4 sites
- Gracilisphinctes (Gracilisphinctes) pseudoimitator3 sites
- Macrocephalites3 sites
- Oxycerites3 sites
- Oxycerites (Paroecotraustes) maubeugei3 sites
- Oxycerites oxus3 sites
- Procerites (Procerites) lissajousi3 sites
- Tulites3 sites
- Bullatimorphites2 sites
- Cadomites (Polyplectites)2 sites
- Calliphylloceras disputabile2 sites
- Ebrayiceras sulcatum2 sites
- Franchia quenstedti2 sites
- Gracilisphinctes (Gracilisphinctes) paragracilis2 sites
- Loboplanulites cerealiformis2 sites
- Morphoceras2 sites
- Morphoceras patescens2 sites
- Morrisiceras (Holzbergia) schwandorfense2 sites
- Morrisiceras (Morrisiceras)2 sites
- Morrisiceras morrisi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Siemiradzkia, 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
8 references- Besnosov and Mitta, 199311
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]6
- Das Bathonium (Mittlerer Jura) zwischen Aalen und Bopfingen, östl. Schwäb. Alb. 1. Mittel-Bathonium [The Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) between Aalen and Bopfingen, eastern Swabian Alb. 1. Middle Bathonian]2
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires2
- Late Bajocian-Bathonian ammonites from northeast Iran1
- Jurassic rocks, bivalves, and depositional environments of the source area of the Yangtze River, Qinghai Province, western China1
- Jurassic (Bathonian or Early Callovian) Ammonites from Alaska and Montana1
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule II (Bathonien, Callovien). Pl. VI-XXXIII1
Each of the 25 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
Media content1

Picture of Siemiradzkia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPerisphinctidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1900)