Aioloceras

Aioloceras is an ammonite, order Ammonitida, from near the end of the Early Cretaceous. The shell is compressed with the outer whorl covering much of the previous. Sides are slightly convex, converge toward a narrowly ached venter. Inner whorls have sharp falcoid ribs, outer are smooth. Umbilical tubercles are lacking. Similar related forms include Neosaynella and Cleoniceras.

No picture of Aioloceras 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 Aioloceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BeudanticeratidaePBDB
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 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.9 Mya100 Mya

12 occurrences of Aioloceras on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

12 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

Mzinene — 27.97°S, 32.31°EMzinene — 27.87°S, 32.32°EMzinene — 27.74°S, 32.29°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°EWallumbilla — 15.20°S, 141.58°E

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The named rock units Aioloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aioloceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Aioloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Aioloceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Aioloceras 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 Aioloceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aioloceras 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

Licence
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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 itBeudanticeratidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whitehouse 1926)