Surites (Surites)
No picture of Surites (Surites) 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 Surites (Surites), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SuritesPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Surites (Surites) 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
23 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Palnatokes Bjerg Formation · Wollaston Forland Group12
- Llindemann Bugt Formation1
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The named rock units Surites (Surites) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Surites (Surites) and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Surites (Surites) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Acroteuthis5 sites
- Buchia5 sites
- Buchia terebratuloides4 sites
- Buchia trigonoides4 sites
- Menjaites (Menjaites) imperceptus4 sites
- Buchia volgensis3 sites
- Cylindroteuthis3 sites
- Nikitinoceras (Nikitinoceras) intermedium3 sites
- Nikitinoceras (Russanovia) diptychum3 sites
- Nikitinoceras (Russanovia) triptychiformis3 sites
- Polyptychites (Polyptychites) keyserlingi3 sites
- Polyptychites (Primitiviptychites) rectangulatus3 sites
- Polyptychites (Siberiptychites) stubendorffi3 sites
- Tollia (Neocraspedites) semilaevis3 sites
- Tollia (Tollia)3 sites
- Bogoslovskya2 sites
- Borealites (Pseudocraspedites) anglicus2 sites
- Buchia uncitoides2 sites
- Camptonectes2 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 sites
- Euthymiceras2 sites
- Lagonibelus2 sites
- Lenticulina2 sites
- Menjaites (Menjaites) groenlandicus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Surites (Surites), 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
3 references- The Early Cretaceous (Late Ryazanian-Early Hauterivian) ammonite fauna of North-East Greenland: taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography13
- Part L: Mollusca 4 Revised: Volume 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea9
- Distribution of ammonites, foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts in the Lower Cretaceous reference sections of the Khatanga Basin, and Boreal Valanginian biogeography1
Each of the 23 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 content0
No picture of Surites (Surites) 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 Surites (Surites), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Surites (Surites) 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSurites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sazonov 1951