Kossmaticeras (Natalites)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KossmaticerasPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 86.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
22 occurrences of Kossmaticeras (Natalites) 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
22 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
7 formations
- Quiriquina Formation8
- Miria Formation5
- Umzamba Formation3
- Otamatea Formation2
- Mzamba Formation1
- St Lucia Formation1
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The named rock units Kossmaticeras (Natalites) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kossmaticeras (Natalites) and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Kossmaticeras (Natalites) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Eubaculites carinatus8 sites
- Anagaudryceras mikobokense6 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides6 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus6 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra6 sites
- Anagaudryceras subtilineatum5 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis5 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum5 sites
- Baculites anceps4 sites
- Baculites huenickeni4 sites
- Gunnarites bhavaniformis4 sites
- Gunnarites kalika4 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) inflatum4 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum4 sites
- Kitchinites spathi4 sites
- Maorites densicostatus4 sites
- Gaudryceras seymouriense3 sites
- Grossouvrites joharae3 sites
- Hauericeras (Gardeniceras) gardeni3 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense3 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya3 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) jacquoti3 sites
- Pseudophyllites latus3 sites
- Zelandites varuna3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Kossmaticeras (Natalites), 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
8 references- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile8
- Maastrichtian Non-Heteromorph Ammonites from the Miria Formation, Western Australia5
- Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand3
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite family Kossmaticeratidae2
- Upper Cretaceous Cephalopoda from offshore deposits off the Natal south coast, South Africa.1
- Geology of the Tinui-Awatoitoi District1
- A new carinate phylloceratid ammonite from the early Albian (Cretaceous) of Zululand, South Africa1
- Upper Cretaceous Invertebrate Faunas from Durban, South Africa1
Each of the 22 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.
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Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kossmaticeras (Natalites), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kossmaticeras (Natalites) 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 through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Collignon 1954)