Anthracoceras

Anthracoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthracoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 307 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 85 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 85 of 85 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 27 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 42 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 8 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346.7 Mya315.2 Mya360 Mya306 Mya

85 occurrences of Anthracoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

85 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

14 formations

Upper Limestone — 55.80°N, 4.38°WUpper Limestone — 55.91°N, 4.22°WUpper Limestone — 55.80°N, 4.31°WUpper Limestone — 55.76°N, 3.81°WUpper Limestone — 55.74°N, 3.78°WUpper Limestone — 55.42°N, 4.17°WUpper Limestone — 55.66°N, 4.44°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.07°N, 1.82°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.17°N, 1.87°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.23°N, 2.42°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.00°N, 2.00°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.81°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.76°N, 92.93°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.17°N, 1.87°WCockhill Marine Band — 53.00°N, 2.00°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.00°N, 2.00°WCaton Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WRoeburndale — 54.08°N, 2.60°WRoeburndale — 54.08°N, 2.47°WRoeburndale — 54.03°N, 2.68°WRoeburndale — 54.02°N, 2.63°WSabden Shale — 54.00°N, 3.00°WSabden Shale — 53.80°N, 2.53°WBentham Grit — 54.00°N, 2.83°WTarnbrook Wyre Marine Beds — 54.00°N, 2.83°WAshkidah — 27.50°N, 14.30°EShunner Fell Limestone — 54.37°N, 2.22°WPassage — 55.91°N, 4.03°WCarbondale — 40.46°N, 90.22°WBoggy — 38.34°N, 93.71°W

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The named rock units Anthracoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthracoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Anthracoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Anthracoceras, 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

11 references

Each of the 85 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 Anthracoceras

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GBIF
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via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Anthracoceras 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itAnthracoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frech 1899)