Acrochordiceras carolinae

Acrochordiceras carolinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrochordicerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 970 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 122 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 117 of 122 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 122 occurrencesLate Triassic248–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 15 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 33 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 40 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 9 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 9 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 6 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244.4 Mya – 243.43 Mya247.5 Mya226.8 Mya

122 occurrences of Acrochordiceras carolinae on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

122 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

Favret — 39.61°N, 117.49°WFavret — 40.05°N, 117.54°WFavret — 40.07°N, 117.58°WFavret — 40.02°N, 117.35°WGutenstein — 47.68°N, 14.73°EChaqupu — 30.00°N, 90.76°EFelsoörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EBulog — 43.82°N, 18.44°EBulog — 43.85°N, 18.48°ESchreyeralm — 47.58°N, 13.59°EDong Trau — 19.50°N, 105.00°EDont — 46.72°N, 12.05°EFelsõörs — 46.92°N, 17.82°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.67°EZuhánya — 46.13°N, 18.02°EKomarani — 43.16°N, 19.06°E

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The named rock units Acrochordiceras carolinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrochordiceras carolinae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Acrochordiceras carolinae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

421 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Acrochordiceras carolinae, 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

19 references

Each of the 122 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. 7 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

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No 3D scan of Acrochordiceras carolinae 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Mojsisovics 1882