Ceratitidae

Ceratitidae is an extinct family of ammonite cephalopods.

Ceratitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratitoideaPBDB
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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 24 of 2339 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 2298 of 2339 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 17 of 2339 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2339 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 4 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 10 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 40 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 206 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 689 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 1192 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 106 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 48 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 28 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 4 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 3 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya227.3 Mya252 Mya200 Mya

2,339 occurrences of Ceratitidae 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

2,339 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

98 formations

Felsoörs — 46.95°N, 17.70°EFelsoörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsoörs — 47.02°N, 17.95°EPrida — 40.28°N, 118.08°WPrida — 40.47°N, 118.13°WPrida — 40.51°N, 118.18°WPrida — 40.37°N, 118.11°WPrida — 40.43°N, 118.15°WVászoly — 47.07°N, 17.97°EVászoly — 46.93°N, 17.78°EVászoly — 46.91°N, 17.68°EVászoly — 46.96°N, 17.71°EVászoly — 46.98°N, 17.75°EVászoly — 47.14°N, 18.08°EVászoly — 47.17°N, 18.09°EToad — 58.65°N, 124.25°WToad — 58.27°N, 121.77°WToad — 58.80°N, 122.55°WToad — 58.55°N, 123.78°WToad — 58.65°N, 124.26°WToad — 57.22°N, 123.28°WToad — 58.55°N, 123.87°WToad — 58.55°N, 123.96°WToad — 57.77°N, 123.64°WToad — 59.37°N, 125.00°WToad — 58.67°N, 124.36°WToad — 58.34°N, 124.37°WToad — 58.55°N, 123.93°WToad — 57.24°N, 123.39°WToad — 59.18°N, 124.72°WToad — 59.35°N, 124.82°WToad — 58.65°N, 124.33°WToad — 58.29°N, 124.06°WBuchenstein — 45.82°N, 10.47°EBuchenstein — 46.57°N, 11.67°EBuchenstein — 46.00°N, 10.55°EBuchenstein — 45.94°N, 10.63°EBuchenstein — 45.76°N, 10.38°EBuchenstein — 45.71°N, 10.25°EBuchenstein — 45.74°N, 10.22°EBuchenstein — 46.56°N, 11.64°EFavret — 39.86°N, 117.49°WFavret — 40.05°N, 117.54°WFavret — 39.85°N, 117.47°WFavret — 40.49°N, 118.13°WFavret — 40.03°N, 117.57°WFavret — 39.61°N, 117.49°WFavret — 39.13°N, 114.29°WFavret — 40.07°N, 117.58°WFavret — 40.02°N, 117.35°WFavret — 40.42°N, 118.14°WBotneheia — 77.56°N, 15.04°EBotneheia — 77.55°N, 15.06°EBotneheia — 77.55°N, 14.76°EBotneheia — 78.34°N, 16.52°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.34°EBotneheia — 78.22°N, 17.51°EBotneheia — 78.58°N, 15.29°EBotneheia — 78.27°N, 16.86°EBotneheia — 78.48°N, 15.73°EBotneheia — 78.59°N, 14.44°EBotneheia — 78.31°N, 14.07°EBotneheia — 78.48°N, 15.56°EBotneheia — 78.50°N, 15.86°EBotneheia — 77.69°N, 14.90°EBotneheia — 78.29°N, 16.56°EVaszoly — 47.02°N, 17.94°ESan Salvatore — 45.86°N, 8.81°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.81°N, 127.24°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.70°N, 127.80°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.72°N, 127.49°EPrezzo — 45.76°N, 10.15°EPrezzo — 45.99°N, 10.61°EPrezzo — 45.96°N, 10.29°EEsino — 45.92°N, 9.70°EGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.95°ESulphur Mountain — 51.00°N, 115.00°WSulphur Mountain — 53.72°N, 118.96°WSulphur Mountain — 53.54°N, 118.99°WSulphur Mountain — 54.84°N, 121.40°WSulphur Mountain — 54.68°N, 121.01°WSulphur Mountain — 55.08°N, 122.00°WSulphur Mountain — 55.24°N, 122.10°WSulphur Mountain — 53.82°N, 119.97°WSulphur Mountain — 54.28°N, 120.33°WHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EFelsöörs — 47.06°N, 17.99°EFelsoors — 47.02°N, 17.94°EBravaisberget — 78.10°N, 13.88°EBravaisberget — 77.62°N, 14.98°EDorgicse — 46.93°N, 17.78°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°ECeratites Beds — 51.50°N, 9.83°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EFelsőörs — 46.96°N, 17.70°EFelsőörs — 46.89°N, 17.65°EFelsőörs — 47.00°N, 17.93°EFelsőörs — 47.01°N, 17.78°EFelsőörs — 47.24°N, 18.28°E

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The named rock units Ceratitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 956 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratitidae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ceratitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

683 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,064 sites for Ceratitidae, 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

156 references

Each of the 2,339 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. 144 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 Ceratitidae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itCeratitoidea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1879