Kilianella

Kilianella is a genus of the ammonite family Neocomitidae. The shell of Kilianella is evolute with a slightly grooved venter and covered by strong, gently flexious, single or bifurcating ribs.

Kilianella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeocomitinaePBDB
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 8.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 110 of 110 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 3 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 12 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 12 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 12 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 12 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 12 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 12 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 12 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141 Mya132.6 Mya143.6 Mya125.3 Mya

110 occurrences of Kilianella on record, most of them in the Early 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

110 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

16 formations

Miravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EMogyorósdomb Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EGiumal Sandstone — 32.28°N, 78.02°EGiumal Sandstone — 32.42°N, 78.08°EPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°WPaskenta — 39.91°N, 122.56°WTaraises — 24.61°N, 101.57°WMraznica — 49.03°N, 18.33°EPunta del Cobre — 28.84°S, 71.09°WSidi Lhousseine — 31.21°N, 7.88°WGuchuochun — 28.08°N, 86.00°ECalcaire Inferieur — 32.38°N, 9.25°WBrasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°EMyrtle — 42.84°N, 124.54°WMorro — 15.16°N, 23.18°WRio Tascadero — 30.90°S, 70.55°WQuintuco — 38.12°S, 70.35°W

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The named rock units Kilianella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kilianella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Kilianella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

161 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Kilianella, 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

27 references

Each of the 110 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Kilianella

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

No 3D scan of Kilianella 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.

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 itNeocomitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Uhlig 1905)