Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense
Collignon, Maurice Jules Marie · 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
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras)PBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Forresteria (Forresteria) alluaudi1 site
- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) strictum1 site
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum paucicostatum1 site
- Peroniceras (Peroniceras) dravidicum1 site
- Peroniceras (Peroniceras) subtricarinatum1 site
- Peroniceras (Peroniceras) westphalicum1 site
- Placenticeras kaffrarium1 site
- Pseudoxybeloceras (Pseudoxybeloceras)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Coniacian ammonites from James Ross Island, Antarctica1
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Kossmaticeratidae1
Each of the 2 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 Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collignon, Maurice Jules Marie
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itKossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Collignon 1954