Sonneratia

Sonneratia is an extinct genus of Cretaceous ammonites included in the family Hoplitidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period, Aptian - Albian age.

Sonneratia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SonneratiinaePBDB
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 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 33 of 47 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 47 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 10 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 18 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Sonneratia 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

47 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

8 formations

Folkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.28°N, 0.53°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EFolkestone — 51.32°N, 0.32°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WMonk’s Bay Sandstone — 50.60°N, 1.32°WMonk’s Bay Sandstone — 50.63°N, 1.17°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.56°WBudden Canyon — 40.49°N, 122.49°WAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°ECarolinefjellet — 77.62°N, 15.05°ETsuyazaki — 33.81°N, 130.45°EDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.15°N, 5.48°E

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The named rock units Sonneratia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sonneratia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

577 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Sonneratia, 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

10 references

Each of the 47 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 Sonneratia

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itSonneratiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1878