Reineckeia

Reineckeia is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Reineckeiidae.

Reineckeia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ReineckeiidaePBDB
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 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 104 of 106 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 106 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 106 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 16 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 26 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 26 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 26 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 9 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya161.5 Mya171.5 Mya142.5 Mya

106 occurrences of Reineckeia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

106 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

12 formations

Capas con Reineckeia — 17.54°N, 97.88°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ECroûte ferrugineuse — 46.65°N, 4.87°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EChari — 23.72°N, 69.06°EChari — 23.62°N, 69.15°ECalcaires roux — 47.03°N, 4.83°EMarnes brunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°EMarnes jaunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°E"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ECalabozo — 35.18°S, 70.35°WAsiento — 26.54°S, 69.25°WAsiento — 26.80°S, 69.19°WCalcaire spathique — 47.32°N, 5.00°E

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The named rock units Reineckeia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reineckeia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Reineckeia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Reineckeia, 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

15 references

Each of the 106 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Reineckeia

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itReineckeiidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.