Ammonitina

Ammonitina comprises a diverse suborder of ammonite cephalopods that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic Era. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods.

Ammonitina

Dlloyd · 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
AmmonitidaPBDB
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 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3239 of 12000 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1424 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1568 of 12000 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3893 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1875 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 12000 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 221 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 335 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 549 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 874 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 858 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 509 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 451 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 538 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 590 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 426 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 319 occurrences149–144 Mya — about 519 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 439 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 670 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 464 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 581 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 524 occurrences119–114 Mya — about 155 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 459 occurrences109–104 Mya — about 337 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 479 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 488 occurrences94–89 Mya — about 392 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 258 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 119 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 110 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 200 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 134 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences199.5 Mya72.2 Mya209 Mya59 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Ammonitina on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 447 formations

Jurensismergel — 49.91°N, 11.46°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EJurensismergel — 48.83°N, 10.10°EFannin — 52.76°N, 131.55°WFannin — 53.03°N, 131.88°WFannin — 53.18°N, 132.02°WFannin — 53.38°N, 132.27°WFannin — 53.41°N, 132.25°WFannin — 53.20°N, 132.05°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.91°N, 6.49°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.82°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.02°N, 6.75°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.45°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.03°N, 6.47°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.93°N, 6.25°EWhiteaves — 53.42°N, 132.27°WWhiteaves — 53.20°N, 132.05°WWhiteaves — 53.19°N, 132.02°WWhiteaves — 52.96°N, 131.61°WWhiteaves — 53.49°N, 132.33°WSpatsizi — 57.47°N, 128.94°WSpatsizi — 57.53°N, 129.03°WSpatsizi — 57.58°N, 128.93°WSpatsizi — 57.87°N, 129.57°WSpatsizi — 57.87°N, 128.57°WSpatsizi — 57.62°N, 128.97°WSpatsizi — 57.52°N, 128.84°WNishinakayama — 34.25°N, 131.00°EMiravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WHilo — 3.67°N, 74.89°WIsztimér Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.90°EIsztimér Limestone — 46.98°N, 17.30°EMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 35.72°N, 106.92°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.12°N, 109.91°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 110.88°WMancos Shale — 36.16°N, 109.84°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.96°N, 110.89°WMancos Shale — 36.08°N, 111.07°WMancos Shale — 36.53°N, 110.09°WMancos Shale — 35.29°N, 107.11°WMancos Shale — 34.70°N, 107.88°WMancos Shale — 33.88°N, 106.75°WMancos Shale — 34.48°N, 107.53°WMancos Shale — 34.06°N, 106.65°WMancos Shale — 35.87°N, 106.91°WGhost Creek — 52.76°N, 131.55°WGhost Creek — 53.03°N, 131.88°WGhost Creek — 53.18°N, 132.02°WGhost Creek — 53.41°N, 132.30°WGhost Creek — 53.20°N, 132.05°WTaboulouart — 31.21°N, 7.88°WTaboulouart — 31.26°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.87°N, 9.81°WTaboulouart — 30.72°N, 9.80°WTaboulouart — 30.61°N, 9.73°WFolkestone — 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°WFolkestone — 50.88°N, 0.33°WFolkestone — 52.55°N, 0.33°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.25°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 45.17°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.67°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.30°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 23.20°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.03°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.63°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.33°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 24.08°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 22.17°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.28°N, 44.83°EMaiolica — 43.59°N, 12.54°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 43.53°N, 12.58°EMaiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°ERennertshofen — 48.00°N, 10.00°ERennertshofen — 48.75°N, 11.03°ERennertshofen — 48.00°N, 11.00°ERennertshofen — 48.75°N, 11.05°EAgrio — 38.98°S, 68.00°WAgrio — 39.45°S, 67.70°WAgrio — 37.77°S, 70.40°WAgrio — 37.73°S, 70.22°WAgrio — 38.73°S, 69.92°WAgrio — 38.30°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 38.15°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 34.45°S, 69.67°WAgrio — 37.05°S, 69.87°WAgrio — 37.43°S, 70.45°WAgrio — 37.52°S, 70.00°WAgrio — 37.73°S, 70.04°WAgrio — 37.75°S, 69.97°WAgrio — 37.93°S, 70.12°WAgrio — 38.05°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 38.25°S, 70.25°WAgrio — 38.73°S, 70.02°WAgrio — 37.42°S, 70.33°WAgrio — 37.27°S, 70.48°W"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ETűzkövesárok Limestone — 47.34°N, 18.09°EPhantom Creek — 53.38°N, 132.26°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.17°WKennicott — 62.00°N, 143.00°WKennicott — 61.50°N, 143.33°WKennicott — 61.25°N, 142.67°WNaifa — 14.28°N, 48.55°ENaifa — 14.27°N, 48.56°ENaifa — 14.31°N, 48.43°ESpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°E

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The named rock units Ammonitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 423 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3,797 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,015 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 771 sites for Ammonitina, and this reads 240 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

at least 460 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 448 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 Ammonitina

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

No 3D scan of Ammonitina 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.

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 itAmmonitida through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1889