Collignoniceras

Collignociceras is a strongly ribbed and tuberculate, evolute ammonite from the Turonian of the western U.S. and Europe belonging to the ammonitid family Collignoniceratidae. The genus is named after the French paleontologist Maurice Collignon. The type is Collignoniceras woollgari, named by Mantell in 1822 for specimens from Sussex, England.

Collignoniceras

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
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 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 98 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 98 of 98 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 9 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 9 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 9 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 9 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 9 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 9 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 9 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 9 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 9 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

98 occurrences of Collignoniceras 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

98 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

Carlile Shale — 42.69°N, 96.83°WCarlile Shale — 42.52°N, 96.82°WCarlile Shale — 45.19°N, 96.75°WCarlile Shale — 43.27°N, 103.55°WCarlile Shale — 43.84°N, 104.23°WCarlile Shale — 43.85°N, 104.57°WCarlile Shale — 42.92°N, 96.78°WCarlile Shale — 43.69°N, 103.21°WCarlile Shale — 42.72°N, 102.13°WCarlile Shale — 43.34°N, 103.44°WCarlile Shale — 39.34°N, 98.47°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.05°N, 99.03°WCarlile Shale — 42.98°N, 102.86°WBlackstone — 50.74°N, 113.85°WBlackstone — 52.00°N, 115.00°WBlackstone — 52.36°N, 116.25°WBlackstone — 53.10°N, 117.45°WBlackstone — 53.74°N, 118.23°WBlackstone — 52.80°N, 116.81°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.87°N, 106.91°WMancos Shale — 34.38°N, 107.38°WMancos Shale — 34.78°N, 108.87°WBudden Canyon — 40.42°N, 122.53°WBudden Canyon — 40.51°N, 122.44°WTres Hermanos — 33.88°N, 106.75°WTres Hermanos — 34.27°N, 106.86°WTres Hermanos — 34.44°N, 107.47°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.24°WPanoche — 37.17°N, 121.15°WKaskapau — 55.95°N, 122.12°WChispa Summit — 30.70°N, 104.78°WChispa Summit — 32.88°N, 96.68°WMassillan — 44.24°N, 4.75°EBathurst Island — 11.62°S, 130.38°EBoquillas — 29.50°N, 105.00°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WCraie de Sens — 48.05°N, 3.32°EKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°EOjinaga — 30.75°N, 105.18°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 2.16°WBranderfleck — 47.76°N, 14.54°EBoquillas — 31.04°N, 104.06°WIndidura — 21.93°N, 102.17°WLa Frontera — 5.30°N, 73.82°WCarlile — 42.73°N, 96.89°WPeruc-Koryčany — 50.23°N, 14.09°EBila Hora — 50.22°N, 13.74°E

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The named rock units Collignoniceras 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. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Collignoniceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

282 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Collignoniceras, 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

36 references

Each of the 98 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. 24 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 content2

Picture of Collignoniceras

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCollignoniceratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Breistroffer 1947)