Neocomitidae

Neocomitidae is a family of Lower Cretaceous ammonitids comprising genera with strongly ribbed evolute to smooth, fairly involute shells.

Neocomitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PerisphinctoideaPBDB
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 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 164.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 2600 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 320 of 2600 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2279 of 2600 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2600 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 4 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 17 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 5 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 24 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 37 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 189 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 241 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 169 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 216 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 663 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 615 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 133 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 133 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 132 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 5 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152.21 Mya119.57 Mya166 Mya99 Mya

2,600 occurrences of Neocomitidae 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

2,600 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

91 formations

Miravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WLa Caja — 23.63°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.62°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.70°N, 100.87°WLa Caja — 23.68°N, 100.85°WAgrio — 38.98°S, 68.00°WAgrio — 39.45°S, 67.70°WAgrio — 37.77°S, 70.40°WAgrio — 37.73°S, 70.22°WAgrio — 38.30°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 38.15°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 38.05°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 38.73°S, 69.92°WAgrio — 37.42°S, 70.33°WAgrio — 37.27°S, 70.48°WAgrio — 39.35°S, 70.13°WAgrio — 37.04°S, 69.87°WAgrio — 37.45°S, 70.43°WAgrio — 37.53°S, 70.05°WAgrio — 37.63°S, 70.21°WAgrio — 37.75°S, 70.21°WAgrio — 37.83°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 38.37°S, 70.00°WAgrio — 38.76°S, 69.94°WAgrio — 38.44°S, 70.16°WAgrio — 38.26°S, 70.00°WSzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.50°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 43.53°N, 12.58°EMaiolica — 45.75°N, 9.48°ESpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°ESpiti Shale — 32.42°N, 78.08°ELo Valdés — 33.75°S, 70.03°WLo Valdés — 34.27°S, 69.93°WHajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°EHajar — 14.33°N, 48.38°EHajar — 14.55°N, 48.04°EHajar — 14.36°N, 48.02°EMogyorósdomb Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°ERossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°ERossfeld — 47.79°N, 14.52°EChia Gara — 37.01°N, 43.40°EGrand Essert — 45.98°N, 5.60°ETaraises — 24.70°N, 103.50°WTaraises — 24.59°N, 101.52°WTaraises — 24.81°N, 101.70°WTaraises — 24.68°N, 101.60°WTaraises — 24.61°N, 101.57°WQuintuco — 38.12°S, 70.35°WGiumal Sandstone — 32.28°N, 78.02°EGiumal Sandstone — 32.42°N, 78.08°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.11°ESabinal — 17.09°N, 97.50°WTollo — 38.07°N, 1.81°WPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°WPaskenta — 39.91°N, 122.56°WShal — 37.34°N, 48.75°EWłocławek — 51.50°N, 20.06°ERogozno — 51.98°N, 19.02°EBrasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°EEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°E

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The named rock units Neocomitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,403 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neocomitidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

671 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 834 sites for Neocomitidae, and this reads 240 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

143 references

Each of the 2,600 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. 131 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 Neocomitidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neocomitidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salfeld 1921)