Schlotheimiidae

Schlotheimiidae is an extinct family of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass. These cephalopods existed in the Jurassic period.

Schlotheimiidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsiloceratoideaPBDB
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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 447 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 447 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 444 of 447 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 447 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 447 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences202–199 Mya — about 281 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 65 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 65 occurrences194–191 Mya — about 29 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.4 Mya165.3 Mya239 Mya160 Mya

447 occurrences of Schlotheimiidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

447 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

38 formations

Sandilands — 53.91°N, 133.15°WSunrise — 38.81°N, 117.60°WSunrise — 38.47°N, 118.43°WSunrise — 38.49°N, 118.09°WFernie — 56.10°N, 123.04°WBlue Lias — 50.00°N, 2.00°WBlue Lias — 51.00°N, 3.00°WBlue Lias — 51.17°N, 3.27°WBlue Lias — 50.80°N, 3.03°WGraylock — 44.11°N, 119.43°WKamishak — 57.73°N, 155.39°WBouraké B — 22.06°S, 166.16°EBouraké B — 22.07°S, 166.14°EBouraké B — 21.71°S, 165.59°ESchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EChilingote — 6.66°S, 77.80°WIsztimér Limestone — 47.18°N, 17.88°EIsztimér Limestone — 46.98°N, 17.30°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAngulatensandstein — 48.73°N, 9.10°EAngulatensandstein — 48.72°N, 9.15°EAngulatensandstein — 48.57°N, 9.28°EAngulatensandstein — 48.71°N, 9.66°EJinji — 23.48°N, 116.01°EJinji — 22.16°N, 112.50°ELast Creek — 51.08°N, 122.96°WLast Creek — 51.05°N, 122.96°WAramachay — 9.28°S, 75.99°WSchnoll — 47.00°N, 13.00°EZlambach — 47.64°N, 13.66°EHuayacocotla — 20.33°N, 98.22°WHuayacocotla — 20.36°N, 98.21°WTolo Channel — 22.49°N, 114.32°ETolo Channel — 22.43°N, 114.25°EGermig — 28.70°N, 86.14°EOust — 36.52°N, 10.06°EOust — 36.37°N, 10.09°EObtususton — 48.42°N, 9.03°EObtususton — 48.70°N, 9.71°ELos Molles — 32.24°S, 71.51°WSedrina — 45.00°N, 9.00°E

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The named rock units Schlotheimiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 208 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schlotheimiidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Schlotheimiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

748 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 159 sites for Schlotheimiidae, 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

68 references

Each of the 447 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. 55 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 Schlotheimiidae

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

No 3D scan of Schlotheimiidae 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 itPsiloceratoidea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1923