Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti

Kurt Meiers · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- AcanthopleurocerasPBDB
- 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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
35 occurrences of Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti 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
35 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
4 formations
- Belemnite Marls Formation4
- Almonacid de la Cuba Formation2
- Lower Lias Formation · Lias Group1
- Adnet Formation1
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The named rock units Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Tragophylloceras ibex12 sites
- Tragophylloceras undulatum10 sites
- Acanthopleuroceras valdani6 sites
- Parainoceramya ventricosa3 sites
- Acanthopleuroceras arietiforme2 sites
- Acanthopleuroceras subarietiforme2 sites
- Coeloceras grenouillouxi2 sites
- Liparoceras2 sites
- Partschiceras2 sites
- Tragophylloceras2 sites
- Tropidoceras masseanum2 sites
- Villania2 sites
- Acanthopleuroceras actaeon aegion1 site
- Aegoceras (Beaniceras)1 site
- Alocolytoceras1 site
- Androgynoceras1 site
- Androgynoceras capricornus1 site
- Angeloteuthis michael1 site
- Angeloteuthis raphael1 site
- Anticonulus lateumbilicatus1 site
- Arieticeras1 site
- Arnioceras rejectum1 site
- Beaniceras centaurus1 site
- Belemnites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti, 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
7 references- Les ammonites du Carixien des Causses (France)25
- The Belemnite marls of Charmouth, a series in the Lias of the Dorset Coast4
- El Jurasico Inferior en la seccion de Almonacid de la Cuba (sector central de la Cordillera Iberica, Zaragoza, Espana) [Lower Jurassic at the Almonacid de la Cuba section (central sector of the Iberian Range, Zaragoza, Spain)]2
- Austroalpine Liassic ammonites from Vorarlberg (Austria, Northern Calcareous Alps)1
- Stratigraphische Kondensation in Adnether Kalken am Rötelstein bei Filzmoos (Salzburger Kalkalpen)1
- The Liassic Ammonite Faunas of the Stowell Park Borehole1
- Paléontologie Française - Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnés fossiles de France - Terrains jurassiques. [Céphalopodes]1
Each of the 35 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. 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 Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kurt Meiers
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAcanthopleuroceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1844)