Goniatitidae

Goniatitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniatitinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 317 occurrencesDevonian — about 12 of 317 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 294 of 317 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 317 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 317 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 317 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 317 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410–404 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences404–398 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences398–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences372–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences359–352 Mya — about 33 occurrences352–346 Mya — about 32 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 31 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 105 occurrences333–327 Mya — about 67 occurrences327–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 15 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 8 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–230 Mya — about 7 occurrences393.47 Mya237 Mya423 Mya230 Mya

317 occurrences of Goniatitidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

317 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

38 formations

Argiles de Teguentour — 26.69°N, 3.80°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.93°N, 3.58°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.62°N, 3.84°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.59°N, 3.86°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.50°N, 3.91°EChainman — 38.93°N, 115.65°WChainman — 39.25°N, 115.48°WChainman — 38.38°N, 114.95°WChainman — 39.60°N, 113.68°WChainman — 39.28°N, 113.63°WChainman — 39.22°N, 113.70°WChainman — 38.57°N, 113.95°WChainman — 38.78°N, 113.85°WChainman — 39.13°N, 115.57°WChainman — 39.00°N, 114.67°WChainman — 39.88°N, 114.38°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°EZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.70°WZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.65°WZrigat — 31.02°N, 3.73°WRuddell — 35.74°N, 91.64°WRuddell — 35.77°N, 91.69°WRuddell — 35.93°N, 92.76°WRuddell — 35.96°N, 92.74°WRuddell — 35.73°N, 91.55°WCassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°EMoorefield — 35.77°N, 91.70°WMoorefield — 35.76°N, 91.58°WMoorefield — 35.81°N, 91.53°WBatesville — 35.75°N, 91.78°WBatesville — 35.76°N, 91.64°WBatesville — 35.77°N, 91.68°WBatesville — 35.91°N, 92.64°WHamou-Rhanem — 31.07°N, 3.63°WHamou-Rhanem — 31.07°N, 3.69°WBellavally — 54.42°N, 7.86°WBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EBarnett — 31.48°N, 104.87°WCaney — 34.34°N, 96.95°WCaney — 34.58°N, 96.63°WCaney — 34.39°N, 96.54°WKulmschiefer — 43.78°N, 18.75°ECarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WAlba — 42.84°N, 5.11°WChainman Shale — 39.61°N, 113.68°WOued Znaigui — 30.97°N, 4.02°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WMarcellus — 42.85°N, 78.80°WWassonville — 41.58°N, 91.33°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°W

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The named rock units Goniatitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniatitidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Goniatitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,468 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 218 sites for Goniatitidae, 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

47 references

Each of the 317 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. 35 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 Goniatitidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
LPG-3D
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itGoniatitina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haan 1825