Cibolites

Cibolites is a genus of ammonoid in the family Paraceltitidae of the cephalopod order Ceratitida which lived during the Late Permian. The genus was first found the Texas and Mexico. The shell is similar to that of Xenodiscites but smooth and with goniatitic sutures.

No picture of Cibolites 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 Cibolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaceltitidaePBDB
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 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 24 of 24 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266.9 Mya264.28 Mya274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

24 occurrences of Cibolites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

24 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

12 formations

Bell Canyon — 31.80°N, 104.77°WBell Canyon — 31.94°N, 104.76°WBell Canyon — 31.93°N, 104.74°WKamiyasse — 38.99°N, 141.54°ELa Difunta — 26.38°N, 102.93°WDingjiashan — 29.33°N, 119.01°ECherry Canyon — 31.73°N, 104.80°WCherry Canyon — 31.71°N, 104.61°WHutang — 28.24°N, 118.03°EHamrat Duru — 23.41°N, 57.40°EBateun Beni Zid — 33.42°N, 10.20°EWord — 30.30°N, 103.38°WShigejizawa — 38.99°N, 141.53°EShaiwa — 25.59°N, 106.15°ELas Delicias — 26.42°N, 102.87°W

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The named rock units Cibolites 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.

Cibolites and its relatives

Permian

Where Cibolites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Cibolites, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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 Cibolites 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 Cibolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cibolites 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

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 itParaceltitidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plummer and Scott 1937