Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus
Orbigny (d') · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras)PBDB
- 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 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
7 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Macrocephalites4 sites
- Pleurocephalites3 sites
- Choffatia2 sites
- Dolikephalites2 sites
- Homoeoplanulites2 sites
- Pleurocephalites habyensis2 sites
- Alcidia1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Bomburites)1 site
- Choffatia furcula1 site
- Grossouvria crassa1 site
- Holcophylloceras mediterraneum1 site
- Indocephalites1 site
- Kamptokephalites1 site
- Kepplerites (Kepplerites) keppleri1 site
- Nuculoma1 site
- Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus1 site
- Palaeonucula1 site
- Pleurocephalites besairiei diegoensis1 site
- Populisphinctes aff. plicomphalus1 site
- Sindeites1 site
- Sivajiceras1 site
- Sivajiceras congener1 site
- Sivajiceras paramorphum1 site
- Subbonarella cf. decipiens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus, 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
7 references- Late Bajocian-Bathonian ammonites from northeast Iran1
- Middle to Upper Jurassic (Callovian-Kimmeridgian) in the Arcos Plateau (Arino-Oliere area, eastern Iberian chain, Spain): Taphonomic analysis and biostratigraphy1
- Besnosov and Mitta, 19931
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]1
- La série callovienne du Nord-Ouest du bassin d'Aquitaine1
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires1
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule II (Bathonien, Callovien). Pl. VI-XXXIII1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) bullatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Orbigny (d')
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBullatimorphites (Kheraiceras) through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1846)