Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps
No picture of Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps 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 Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Agoniatites (Agoniatites)PBDB
- 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 38 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps 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
4 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 Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps 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.
Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps and its relatives
DevonianWhere Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Anarcestes plebeius3 sites
- Anarcestes simulans3 sites
- Paraphyllites tabuloides3 sites
- Amoenophyllites amoenus2 sites
- Anarcestes applanatus2 sites
- Anarcestes densistriatus2 sites
- Anarcestes lateseptatus2 sites
- Anarcestes latissimus2 sites
- Crispoceras crispum2 sites
- Desmograptus2 sites
- Sellanarcestes certus2 sites
- Sellanarcestes cognatus2 sites
- Sellanarcestes crassior2 sites
- Sellanarcestes neglectus2 sites
- Sellanarcestes perfectus2 sites
- Acanthopyge (Perunaspis) longispinus1 site
- Agoniatites holzapfeli1 site
- Agoniatites nodiferus1 site
- Ambocoelia1 site
- Anarcestes1 site
- Aulacopleura1 site
- Auloporididae indet.1 site
- Bifida1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps, 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
2 referencesEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps 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 Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAgoniatites (Agoniatites) through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chlupac and Turek 1983