Choristoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChoristoceratidaePBDB
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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 233.6 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 81 of 90 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 90 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 17 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 20 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 20 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 18 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 6 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences227.3 Mya201.4 Mya234.3 Mya198.8 Mya

90 occurrences of Choristoceras on record, most of them in the Late 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

90 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

25 formations

Kossen — 47.50°N, 10.41°EKossen — 47.48°N, 10.94°EKossen — 47.53°N, 11.09°EKossen — 47.54°N, 11.18°EGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WGabbs — 38.49°N, 118.08°WGabbs — 38.82°N, 117.58°WSandilands — 53.90°N, 133.15°WSandilands — 52.76°N, 131.56°WSandilands — 53.91°N, 133.15°WKoessen — 47.72°N, 11.98°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.06°EKoessen — 47.68°N, 12.47°EKoessen — 47.47°N, 11.30°EKoessen — 47.47°N, 11.66°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.40°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EKoessen — 47.72°N, 13.19°EKoessen — 47.68°N, 13.34°EGermig — 28.70°N, 86.15°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WModin — 41.25°N, 122.33°WCsovar Limestone — 47.82°N, 19.33°EAramachay — 6.31°S, 77.90°WAramachay — 6.38°S, 77.90°WArroyo Malo — 34.80°S, 69.87°WKössen — 47.48°N, 10.94°ESunrise — 38.49°N, 118.09°WHosselkus — 40.78°N, 122.22°WParson Bay — 48.86°N, 124.23°WZlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EKossen — 47.68°N, 13.35°EChambara — 6.37°S, 77.90°WTyaughton — 51.04°N, 122.96°WKanike — 3.10°S, 129.47°EFatu — 9.60°S, 124.39°EKössen — 47.48°N, 11.53°EKendlbach — 47.48°N, 11.48°ESuta — 6.50°S, 77.73°W

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The named rock units Choristoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Choristoceras and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Choristoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Choristoceras, 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

25 references

Each of the 90 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. 13 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 content0

No picture of Choristoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Choristoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Choristoceras 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChoristoceratidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hauer 1865