Xenoceltitidae

Xenoceltitidae are evolute, generally ribbed, upper Lower Triassic Ceratitida with ceratitic or goniatitic sutures; formerly included in the Noritaceae but now placed in the Xenodiscaceae.

Sulioticeras sulioticum (Arthaber, 1911), a relative of Xenoceltitidae — not Xenoceltitidae itself

Not Xenoceltitidae. This is Sulioticeras sulioticum (Arthaber, 1911), a relative — both are Xenoceltitidae.

Collector(s): James F. Jenks · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
XenodiscoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 294 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 292 of 294 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 294 occurrencesMiddle Triassic252–252 Mya — about 16 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 23 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 11 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 23 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 28 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 28 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 28 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 28 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 28 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 19 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 19 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 19 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 19 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.1 Mya247 Mya252.4 Mya241 Mya

294 occurrences of Xenoceltitidae on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

294 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

33 formations

Thaynes — 42.69°N, 111.47°WThaynes — 42.23°N, 111.44°WThaynes — 41.53°N, 114.13°WThaynes — 41.54°N, 114.17°WThaynes — 42.14°N, 111.22°WThaynes — 41.55°N, 114.14°WThaynes — 42.15°N, 111.24°WThaynes — 39.41°N, 113.69°WThaynes — 38.67°N, 112.52°WThaynes — 38.23°N, 112.89°WThaynes — 43.33°N, 111.26°WThaynes — 41.06°N, 111.57°WThaynes — 40.85°N, 113.19°WWordie Creek — 73.00°N, 23.00°WWordie Creek — 71.73°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 71.00°N, 23.00°WWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 73.85°N, 21.38°WWordie Creek — 72.07°N, 23.75°WWordie Creek — 72.06°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.63°WWordie Creek — 74.01°N, 21.54°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WWordie Creek — 71.69°N, 22.75°WWordie Creek — 74.05°N, 21.70°WKamenushka — 43.60°N, 132.17°EZhitkov — 43.32°N, 132.17°EZhitkov — 43.43°N, 132.44°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.96°N, 71.20°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.78°N, 71.65°EUpper Ceratite Limestone — 32.65°N, 71.79°EVikinghogda — 78.33°N, 16.45°EVikinghogda — 78.34°N, 16.41°EVikinghogda — 78.29°N, 16.56°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°EBac Thuy — 21.72°N, 106.67°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°ELuolou — 24.65°N, 106.83°ELuolou — 24.95°N, 106.45°ELuolou — 25.75°N, 106.11°EKangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°EKangshare — 28.52°N, 86.69°ETulong — 28.45°N, 86.13°ETulong — 28.45°N, 86.24°EMianwali — 32.96°N, 71.20°EMianwali — 32.65°N, 71.79°EMianwali — 32.48°N, 72.20°EMianwali — 32.55°N, 71.79°EKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°EMikin — 31.95°N, 78.02°EMikin — 32.03°N, 78.08°EToad — 58.27°N, 121.77°WToad — 56.65°N, 123.41°WToad — 56.87°N, 123.53°WToad — 59.36°N, 124.86°WKongressfjellet — 78.53°N, 21.96°EKongressfjellet — 78.24°N, 17.21°EUnion Wash — 36.70°N, 118.02°WPrida — 40.51°N, 118.13°WHan-Bulog — 42.02°N, 19.80°ETartalinskaya — 44.36°N, 51.40°EYatyrgvarta — 43.85°N, 40.62°EYatyrgvarta — 43.86°N, 40.58°EOsawa — 38.79°N, 141.52°EOsawa — 38.71°N, 141.53°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.55°N, 71.78°ECeratite Sandstone — 32.40°N, 72.15°EVikinghøgda — 78.29°N, 17.80°EVikinghøgda — 78.22°N, 17.51°ETvillingodden — 78.10°N, 13.87°E

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The named rock units Xenoceltitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xenoceltitidae and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Xenoceltitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

622 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 234 sites for Xenoceltitidae, 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

80 references

Each of the 294 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. 68 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 content1

Picture of Sulioticeras sulioticum (Arthaber, 1911)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): James F. Jenks
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Xenoceltitidae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1930