Ceratites
Searched as Ceratites atavus sequens. The Paleobiology Database treats Ceratites as the accepted name.
Ceratites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods. These nektonic carnivores lived in marine habitats in what is now Europe, during the Triassic, from the upper-most Anisian to the lower Ladinian age.
Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- CeratitinaePBDB
- 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 most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ceratites on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ceratites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratites and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Ceratites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
975 taxa- Paraceratites trinodosus13 sites
- Monophyllites wengensis10 sites
- Trematoceras elegans10 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae9 sites
- Orthoceratoidea8 sites
- Atractites7 sites
- Gymnites incultus7 sites
- Sturia sansovinii7 sites
- Arcestes6 sites
- Flexoptychites acutus5 sites
- Flexoptychites flexuosus5 sites
- Gymnites5 sites
- Judicarites euryomphalus5 sites
- Nudirostralina trinodosi5 sites
- Praepinacoceras damesi5 sites
- Progonoceratites pulcher5 sites
- Ptychites gibbus5 sites
- Schreyerites binodosus5 sites
- Trachyceras muensteri5 sites
- Balatonites zitteli4 sites
- Discoptychites dux4 sites
- Hollandites dungara4 sites
- Hollandites ravana4 sites
- Nautilus tintoretti4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Ceratites, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2
Picture of Ceratites
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Didier Descouens
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ceratites”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCeratitinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Haan 1825)