Uchtites
Uchtites is a genus of ammonoid cephalopods included in the anarcestid family Acanthoclymeniidae that lived during the Devonian period. Its shell is lenticular, flat sided, with a tight umbilicus and sharp ventral keel bordered by weak nodules in adult specimens. The suture has a trifid ventral, rounded outer lateral, weak rounded inner lateral and wedge shaped dorsal lobe.
No picture of Uchtites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Uchtites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PonticeratinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 375.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Uchtites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Uchtites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Uchtites and its relatives
DevonianWhere Uchtites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Ponticeras keyserlingi5 sites
- Ponticeras uchtense5 sites
- Ponticeras tschernyschewi4 sites
- Tornoceras simplex4 sites
- Ponticeras auritum3 sites
- Ponticeras bisulcatum3 sites
- Ponticeras domanicense3 sites
- Lobobactrites2 sites
- Manticoceras ammon2 sites
- Ponticeras lebedeffi2 sites
- Tornoceras typum2 sites
- Domanikoceras timidum1 site
- Komioceras stuckenbergi1 site
- Manticoceras1 site
- Manticoceras sinuosum1 site
- Ponticeras uralicum1 site
- Timanites1 site
- Tornoceras contractum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Uchtites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Devonskie ammonoidei I. Agoniatitidy4
- Revision of ammonoid biostratigraphy in the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of the Southern Timan (northeast Russian Platform)2
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Uchtites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Uchtites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Uchtites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Uchtites”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPonticeratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bogoslovsky 1958