Nostoceratidae

Nostoceratidae was a diverse family of heteromorph ammonites found throughout the oceans of the world during the Late Cretaceous period. Many genera, such as Yezoceras, Ainoceras, Limusoceras, Anaklinoceras, and some species of Bostrychoceras and Eubostrychoceras, display, as young shells at least, a helical coiling very similar to the shells of the related family, Turrilitidae. As adults, though, the coils then curve away from the axis of coiling, either as an oxbow-like curve around the juvenile coils as in Ainoceras and Anaklinoceras, or in a simple curved loop beneath the juvenile coils, as in Yezoceras. Other genera form loose coils, sometimes in a spiral, such as those of Madagascarites, Muramotoceras, Hyphantoceras, and Nipponites.

Nostoceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurrilitoideaPBDB
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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 23 of 688 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 665 of 688 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 688 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 6 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 6 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 6 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 21 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 32 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 29 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 10 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 10 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 27 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 45 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 59 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 59 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 59 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 59 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 59 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 59 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 47 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 25 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 25 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 25 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 10 occurrences106.3 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

688 occurrences of Nostoceratidae 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

688 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

106 formations

Pierre Shale — 43.25°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 44.80°N, 105.05°WPierre Shale — 38.83°N, 103.01°WPierre Shale — 38.18°N, 104.48°WPierre Shale — 45.77°N, 105.08°WPierre Shale — 42.72°N, 103.13°WPierre Shale — 45.47°N, 104.55°WPierre Shale — 43.05°N, 104.48°WPierre Shale — 40.67°N, 106.33°WPierre Shale — 40.67°N, 105.47°WPierre Shale — 39.41°N, 104.88°WPierre Shale — 38.83°N, 104.52°WPierre Shale — 38.38°N, 104.45°WPierre Shale — 40.08°N, 105.35°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WPierre Shale — 40.28°N, 105.14°WPierre Shale — 40.76°N, 105.05°WPierre Shale — 40.90°N, 105.06°WPierre Shale — 40.51°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 38.45°N, 105.15°WPierre Shale — 40.65°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.24°N, 106.40°WPierre Shale — 40.20°N, 105.96°WPierre Shale — 40.73°N, 105.04°WPierre Shale — 43.23°N, 103.21°WPierre Shale — 43.91°N, 102.91°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.77°N, 93.68°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.75°N, 93.90°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.72°N, 93.67°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.87°N, 93.58°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.70°N, 93.96°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.61°N, 95.05°WNacatoch Sand — 31.31°N, 96.90°WSeidan — 34.32°N, 134.71°ENeylandville Marl — 33.37°N, 95.69°WNeylandville Marl — 33.20°N, 96.61°WNeylandville Marl — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNeylandville Marl — 31.48°N, 96.73°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WAnnona — 33.77°N, 93.92°WAnnona — 33.83°N, 93.81°WAnnona — 33.80°N, 94.06°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.76°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 50.75°N, 2.97°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.38°WShinarish — 36.37°N, 41.68°ESaku — 44.11°N, 142.00°ESaku — 44.03°N, 141.95°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 44.07°N, 141.92°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.18°ESanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WMoreno — 36.22°N, 120.12°WMoreno — 36.64°N, 120.73°WMoreno — 36.96°N, 120.88°WMoreno — 37.76°N, 121.40°WMoreno — 37.56°N, 121.37°WMoreno — 36.03°N, 120.14°WMoreno — 37.47°N, 121.23°WMoreno — 37.23°N, 121.13°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.68°S, 114.35°ENavesink — 40.41°N, 74.03°WNavesink — 40.33°N, 74.16°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.79°N, 75.63°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WTeba — 9.25°S, 14.10°ETeba — 13.00°S, 14.00°EMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNkporo Shale — 5.20°N, 8.22°ENkporo Shale — 5.83°N, 7.85°ENkporo Shale — 5.82°N, 7.92°ENkporo Shale — 5.93°N, 7.42°ERagged Valley Shale — 36.33°N, 120.57°WRagged Valley Shale — 36.21°N, 120.45°WDaralitau — 37.80°N, 68.57°EDaralitau — 38.01°N, 69.09°ERedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.55°N, 122.18°WRedding — 40.57°N, 121.98°WChico — 39.66°N, 121.58°WChico — 39.87°N, 121.71°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 61.84°N, 148.06°WMatanuska — 61.91°N, 147.46°WMatanuska — 61.95°N, 147.56°WSt Lucia — 28.45°S, 32.32°ESt Lucia — 28.69°S, 32.02°ESt Lucia — 27.99°S, 32.41°ESt Lucia — 27.86°S, 32.35°E

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The named rock units Nostoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 147 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nostoceratidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nostoceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,639 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 484 sites for Nostoceratidae, 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

120 references

Each of the 688 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. 108 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 Nostoceratidae

Credit
Mr Fink ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Nostoceratidae 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.

The description on this site

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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. (Hyatt 1894)