Katroliceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtaxioceratidaePBDB
- 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 least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
24 occurrences of Katroliceras on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
6 formations
- Naifa Formation3
- Geisental Formation · Weißjura Group1
- Sewa Formation1
- Menbu Formation1
- Spiti Shale Formation1
- Sa Wer Formation1
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The named rock units Katroliceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Katroliceras and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Katroliceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Hybonoticeras5 sites
- Torquatisphinctes4 sites
- Aspidoceras3 sites
- Aulacosphinctoides3 sites
- Hybonoticeras hybonotus3 sites
- Lithacoceras3 sites
- Physodoceras3 sites
- Aspidoceras iphiceroides2 sites
- Aspidoceras longispinum2 sites
- Glochiceras2 sites
- Gryphaea balli2 sites
- Holcophylloceras2 sites
- Holcophylloceras polyolcum2 sites
- Pachysphinctes2 sites
- Pachysphinctes major2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomoceras) predivisum2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes)2 sites
- Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum2 sites
- Streblites plicodiscus2 sites
- Subplanites2 sites
- Taramelliceras compsum2 sites
- Actinostreon1 site
- Ambonosphaera1 site
- Aptychus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Katroliceras, 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
10 references- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (ammonites) - Fascicule V (Kimmerigien)10
- The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen3
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires3
- Ammonites and nautiloids from the Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen2
- Ammonoid stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale Formation in Spiti Himalaya, India1
- Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Buchia (Bivalvia) from southern Tibet, and some wider considerations1
- Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud1
- Jurassic sequences from the Somali coast of the Gulf of Aden1
- Eine Ammoniten-Fauna aus den Spiti-Schiefern von Muktinath in Nepal1
- Untersuchungen zur Paläontologie der Cephalopoden des Unter-Tithon der Südlichen Frankenalb1
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. 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 Katroliceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Katroliceras 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 itAtaxioceratidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1928