Cibolaites

The genus Cibolaites is a strongly ribbed and nodose ammonoid cephalopod from the middle Cretaceous of western New Mexico, included in the taxonomic family Collignoniceratidae. A single species Cibolaites molenaari is known.

Cibolaites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CollignoniceratinaePBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 13 of 13 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Cibolaites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

13 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

1 formation

Mancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WMancos Shale — 34.77°N, 108.78°W

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The named rock units Cibolaites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cibolaites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cibolaites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cibolaites, 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

4 references

Each of the 13 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. 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 Cibolaites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cibolaites was found in Sketchfab.

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

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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 itCollignoniceratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobban and Hook 1983