Quitmanites ceratitosus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuitmanitesPBDB
- 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 most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Quitmanites ceratitosus 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
3 occurrences- Early 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
3 formations
- Mural Formation1
- Cuchillo Formation · Trinity Group1
- La Peña Formation1
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The named rock units Quitmanites ceratitosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quitmanites ceratitosus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Quitmanites ceratitosus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Kazanskyella minima2 sites
- Buchotrigonia1 site
- Douvilleiceras1 site
- Douvilleiceras grandense1 site
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum aequinodum1 site
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum mammillatum1 site
- Douvilleiceras offarcinatum1 site
- Douvilleiceras rex1 site
- Douvilleiceras spathi1 site
- Eodouvilleiceras1 site
- Eodouvilleiceras adkinsi1 site
- Epicheloniceras1 site
- Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi1 site
- Hypacanthoplites bakeri1 site
- Hypacanthoplites quitmanensis1 site
- Hypacanthoplites sellardsi1 site
- Immunitoceras1 site
- Immunitoceras immunitum1 site
- Immunitoceras umbilicostatus1 site
- Kazanskyella1 site
- Kazanskyella spathi1 site
- Neodeshayesites mayfieldensis1 site
- Parahoplites1 site
- Quitmanites evolutus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Quitmanites ceratitosus, 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
3 references- Ammonite taxonomy and biostratigraphy for the upper Aptian-lower Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Cerro Chino, Chihuahua State, northeast Mexico1
- Aptian and Albian (Early Cretaceous) ammonites from Lampazos and the Bisbee groups (Sonora State, northwest Mexico)1
- Texas Cretaceous ammonites and nautiloids1
Each of the 3 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.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Quitmanites ceratitosus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Quitmanites ceratitosus 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 itQuitmanites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott 1940