Aegasteroceras

Aegasteroceras is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Lower Jurassic belonging to the arietitid subfamily Asteroceratinae. The shell of Aegasteroceras is evolute with curve forward and meet at a broad low ventral keel. Aegasteroceras, named by Spath, 1925, has been found in the Sinemurian of England.

Aegasteroceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsteroceratidaePBDB
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 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200 Mya192.4 Mya

18 occurrences of Aegasteroceras 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

18 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

3 formations

Murray Ridge — 68.03°N, 135.43°WTelkwa — 54.77°N, 127.17°WTelkwa — 54.84°N, 127.84°WOust — 36.52°N, 10.06°E

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The named rock units Aegasteroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aegasteroceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Aegasteroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Aegasteroceras, 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

Each of the 18 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 Aegasteroceras

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Licence
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Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aegasteroceras 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itAsteroceratidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1925