Spiticeras (Spiticeras)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiticerasPBDB
- 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 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya.
26 occurrences of Spiticeras (Spiticeras) 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
26 occurrencesThese 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
- Hajar Formation13
- Lo Valdés Formation3
- President Beaches Formation · Byers Group2
- Spiti Shale Formation2
- Sabinal Formation1
- Tollo Formation1
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The named rock units Spiticeras (Spiticeras) 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.
Spiticeras (Spiticeras) and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Spiticeras (Spiticeras) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Berriasella5 sites
- Frenguelliceras3 sites
- Laevaptychus3 sites
- Uhligites3 sites
- Ammonoidea2 sites
- Argentiniceras mintaqi2 sites
- Aspidoceras taverai2 sites
- Berriasella (Berriasella) chomeracensis2 sites
- Buchia uncitoides2 sites
- Delphinella sevenieri2 sites
- Groebericeras rocardi2 sites
- Gymnodiscoceras2 sites
- Hildoglochiceras2 sites
- Kossmatia2 sites
- Paraboliceras2 sites
- Spiticeras obliquenodosum2 sites
- Spiticeras tripartitum2 sites
- Acanthodiscus magnificus1 site
- Arctotis cretacea1 site
- Argentiniceras lonchochense1 site
- Aspidoceras rogoznicense1 site
- Aulacosphinctoides1 site
- Berriasella (Malbosiceras) malbosi1 site
- Berriasella jacobi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Spiticeras (Spiticeras), 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
11 references- The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen12
- The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary (Tithonian - Hauterivian) in the Andean Basin of Central Chile: Ammonites, Bio- and Sequence Stratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography3
- Ammonoid stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale Formation in Spiti Himalaya, India2
- Ammonites from the Buchia zones in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon2
- Ammonite fauna from the Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica1
- The Berriasian-Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) boundary transition at Santa Catarina Ticuá, Oaxaca state, southern Mexico: ammonites, bivalves, calpionellids and their paleobiogeographic significance1
- Combined radiolarian-ammonite stratigraphy for the Late Jurassic of the Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for radiolarian stratigraphy1
- Ammonites and nautiloids from the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen1
- Tithonian and Berriasian ammonites from the Chia Gara Formation in northern Iran1
- Los ammonites del transito Berriasense-Valanginiense en la region de Cehegin (Prov. de Murcia, SE de España)1
- Structural and stratigraphic significance of the Buchia zones in the Colyear Springs-Paskenta Area, California1
Each of the 26 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 Spiticeras (Spiticeras) 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 Spiticeras (Spiticeras), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiticeras (Spiticeras) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSpiticeras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Uhlig 1903