Paraceratites

Paraceratites is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopods in the family Ceratitidae.

Paraceratites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaceratitinaePBDB
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 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 124 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 123 of 124 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 124 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 7 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 10 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 14 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 26 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 26 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 20 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244.4 Mya241.464 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

124 occurrences of Paraceratites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

124 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

25 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EFelsoors — 47.02°N, 17.94°EFelsöörs — 47.06°N, 17.99°EVászoly — 46.91°N, 17.68°EVászoly — 46.98°N, 17.75°EPrezzo Limestone — 45.82°N, 10.47°EChaqupu — 30.00°N, 90.76°EFelsőörs — 46.89°N, 17.65°EWetterstein — 47.32°N, 11.41°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°ECalcare di Dosso dei Morti — 45.00°N, 10.00°ERifu — 38.35°N, 141.04°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°EHallstatt — 37.60°N, 23.07°EBuchenstein — 45.74°N, 10.22°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.89°EZámostie Limestone — 48.66°N, 18.05°ECalcare di Angolo — 45.00°N, 10.00°EDong Giao — 21.50°N, 104.00°EDong Trau — 19.50°N, 105.00°ENam Sam — 20.50°N, 104.00°ERadomir — 42.68°N, 23.32°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EYuat — 5.02°S, 143.98°EAlam — 32.99°N, 53.69°E

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The named rock units Paraceratites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraceratites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Paraceratites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Paraceratites, 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

31 references

Each of the 124 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. 19 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 Paraceratites

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

No 3D scan of Paraceratites 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itParaceratitinae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1900)