Ophiceratidae

The Ophiceratidae is a family in the ammonoid order Ceratitida from the Lower Triassic, previously included in the Otocerataceae but now placed in the Noritiaceae as revised.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeekocerataceaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 250.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 718 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 715 of 718 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 718 occurrencesMiddle Triassic260–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 477 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 223 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 4 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 4 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254.14 Mya250.8 Mya260.4 Mya241 Mya

718 occurrences of Ophiceratidae on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

718 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

40 formations

Wordie Creek — 71.73°N, 22.87°WWordie Creek — 71.73°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 71.68°N, 22.75°WWordie Creek — 71.00°N, 23.00°WWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 73.85°N, 21.38°WWordie Creek — 72.41°N, 23.49°WWordie Creek — 72.07°N, 23.75°WWordie Creek — 72.06°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 72.18°N, 24.02°WWordie Creek — 71.70°N, 22.62°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.63°WWordie Creek — 74.01°N, 21.54°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.05°N, 21.70°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WWordie Creek — 71.60°N, 22.70°WWordie Creek — 71.60°N, 22.40°WDaye — 30.16°N, 115.14°EDaye — 26.63°N, 107.23°EDaye — 30.17°N, 114.76°EDaye — 30.30°N, 106.85°EDaye — 32.99°N, 107.92°EDaye — 29.71°N, 113.93°EDaye — 26.67°N, 106.23°EDaye — 26.58°N, 106.62°EDaye — 26.54°N, 106.68°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EKangshare — 28.27°N, 86.97°EKangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EKangshare — 28.57°N, 85.96°EKangshare — 28.31°N, 86.83°EBlind Fiord — 80.67°N, 95.50°WBlind Fiord — 80.64°N, 95.40°WBlind Fiord — 78.39°N, 85.95°WBlind Fiord — 78.38°N, 85.97°WBlind Fiord — 80.97°N, 88.88°WBlind Fiord — 80.52°N, 94.63°WBlind Fiord — 80.50°N, 94.90°WMianwali — 32.55°N, 71.78°EMianwali — 32.55°N, 71.80°EMianwali — 32.81°N, 71.64°EMianwali — 32.45°N, 72.04°EMianwali — 32.52°N, 72.10°EMianwali — 32.46°N, 72.19°EMianwali — 32.24°N, 71.05°EMianwali — 32.20°N, 70.91°EMianwali — 32.66°N, 71.79°EYinkeng — 30.87°N, 120.10°EYinkeng — 30.92°N, 119.99°EYinkeng — 31.08°N, 119.71°EYinkeng — 31.64°N, 117.85°EKarabaglyar — 39.56°N, 45.21°EKarabaglyar — 38.98°N, 45.53°EKarabaglyar — 39.45°N, 45.23°EKarabaglyar — 39.53°N, 45.37°EKhunamuh — 34.00°N, 75.00°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.65°N, 71.79°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.50°N, 71.94°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.45°N, 72.03°EMikin — 31.97°N, 78.02°EMikin — 32.05°N, 78.09°ELuolou — 24.58°N, 106.89°ELuolou — 24.65°N, 106.83°ELuolou — 24.81°N, 106.55°ELuolou — 24.40°N, 106.30°EKarabaglyar — 39.54°N, 45.43°EKarabaglyar — 39.84°N, 45.05°EKarabaglyar — 39.95°N, 44.88°EElikah — 30.89°N, 53.21°EVikinghogda — 78.30°N, 16.71°EVikinghogda — 78.29°N, 16.56°EFeixianguan — 32.31°N, 105.46°EFeixianguan — 26.33°N, 105.93°EFeixianguan — 29.49°N, 106.40°EFeixianguan — 32.95°N, 107.82°EFeixianguan — 32.62°N, 105.86°EFeixianguan — 30.13°N, 106.45°ERuiping — 30.09°N, 108.61°EDinwoody — 45.64°N, 112.88°WDinwoody — 41.55°N, 114.14°WLazurnaya Bay — 42.92°N, 132.43°ELazurnaya Bay — 43.18°N, 132.10°EQinglong — 31.00°N, 120.00°EQinglong — 30.45°N, 117.54°EKayitou — 25.66°N, 104.42°EKayitou — 26.73°N, 104.44°ENekuchan — 63.10°N, 139.14°EPhrae That — 18.70°N, 99.89°EXikou — 25.26°N, 117.17°EVardebukta — 77.62°N, 14.98°EVardebukta — 78.50°N, 22.00°EVardebukta — 78.10°N, 13.84°E

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The named rock units Ophiceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 84 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophiceratidae and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Ophiceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

311 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 445 sites for Ophiceratidae, 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

77 references

Each of the 718 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. 65 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

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No picture of Ophiceratidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Ophiceratidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophiceratidae 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
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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. Arthaber 1911