Knemiceras

Knemiceras

Zumoffen · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
KnemiceratidaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 67 of 68 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 68 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 10 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 10 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 10 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya93.9 Mya113.7 Mya89.3 Mya

68 occurrences of Knemiceras 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

68 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

13 formations

Zebbag — 34.14°N, 9.16°EZebbag — 33.74°N, 9.52°EHala — 30.38°N, 34.46°EHala — 30.70°N, 33.49°EHala — 30.75°N, 33.53°EChulec — 6.57°S, 78.73°WChulec — 7.16°S, 78.51°WChulec — 6.77°S, 78.62°WHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EHalal — 30.79°N, 33.48°EHalal — 30.80°N, 33.57°ERisan Aneiza — 30.79°N, 33.48°ERisan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.57°ECrisnejas — 6.87°S, 78.15°WCrisnejas — 9.27°S, 77.03°WRizan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.45°ENahr Umr — 22.40°N, 58.13°ELisure — 10.00°N, 72.50°WLa Puya — 10.24°N, 69.70°WChonta — 4.47°S, 77.62°WInca — 9.38°S, 77.12°WColorado — 32.52°N, 107.68°W

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The named rock units Knemiceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Knemiceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Knemiceras, 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

15 references

Each of the 68 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. 3 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 Knemiceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Zumoffen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKnemiceratidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Böhm 1898