Sutneria

Sutneria is a genus of small ammonites from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Europe (Germany). Its shell is generally evolute with a narrowly rounded whorl section and tubercles along the lower flanks.

Sutneria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AspidoceratidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 75 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 74 of 75 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 75 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 8 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 11 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 11 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 9 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 6 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 6 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 6 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161.5 Mya149.2 Mya165.8 Mya142.6 Mya

75 occurrences of Sutneria on record, most of them in the Late 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

75 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

Hangende–Bankkalke — 47.93°N, 8.94°EVaca Muerta — 39.22°S, 70.07°WDietfurt — 49.95°N, 11.08°ENaifa — 14.34°N, 48.39°EGeisental — 48.75°N, 11.25°ESolnhofen — 48.00°N, 10.00°EMörnsheim — 48.00°N, 10.00°ETaman — 21.23°N, 98.87°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EL'Ammonitico Rosso Supérieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WCerritos Bayos — 22.56°S, 69.14°WHangende-Bankkalke — 47.89°N, 8.80°E

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The named rock units Sutneria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sutneria and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Sutneria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Sutneria, 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

16 references

Each of the 75 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. 4 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 Sutneria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Sutneria was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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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 itAspidoceratidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1884