Spiticeras

Spiticeras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpiticeratinaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 128 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 22 of 128 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 106 of 128 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 4 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 8 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 21 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 19 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 21 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 25 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 7 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya125.77 Mya162.3 Mya120.6 Mya

128 occurrences of Spiticeras 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

128 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

17 formations

Hajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°EHajar — 14.33°N, 48.38°EHajar — 14.55°N, 48.04°ESzentivánhegy Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°EMiravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WSpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°ESpiti Shale — 32.42°N, 78.08°ELo Valdés — 33.83°S, 70.05°WLo Valdés — 34.27°S, 69.93°WTollo — 38.07°N, 1.81°WPresident Beaches — 62.60°S, 61.17°WPresident Beaches — 62.66°S, 61.15°WTaraises — 24.73°N, 103.53°WTaraises — 24.59°N, 101.51°WGiumal Sandstone — 32.42°N, 78.08°EShal — 37.34°N, 48.75°ERio Tascadero — 30.89°S, 70.53°WRio Tascadero — 30.89°S, 70.55°WAground Ouadar — 31.21°N, 7.88°WLatimusa — 38.00°N, 12.00°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.11°ESabinal — 17.09°N, 97.50°WChia Gara — 37.01°N, 43.40°E

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The named rock units Spiticeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiticeras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Spiticeras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

306 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Spiticeras, 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

35 references

Each of the 128 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. 23 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 Spiticeras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spiticeras 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 itSpiticeratinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.