Aricoceras ensifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AricocerasPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aricoceras ensifer on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Aricoceras ensifer 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.
Aricoceras ensifer and its relatives
PermianWhere Aricoceras ensifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Neopopanoceras scrobiculatum3 sites
- Propinacoceras beyrichi3 sites
- Adrianites elegans2 sites
- Agathiceras suessi2 sites
- Eumedlicottia bifrons2 sites
- Parapronorites konincki2 sites
- Sosiocrimites insignis2 sites
- Stacheoceras tietzei2 sites
- Waagenoceras2 sites
- Agathiceras tornatum1 site
- Altudoceras roemeri1 site
- Altudoceras sosioense1 site
- Altudoceras waageni1 site
- Altudoceras zitteli1 site
- Bitaunioceras zonatum1 site
- Daraelites meeki1 site
- Epadrianites beyrichi1 site
- Eumedlicottia verneuili1 site
- Gemmellaroia marii1 site
- Hemibactrites adrianense1 site
- Hyattoceras abichi1 site
- Hyattoceras geinitzi1 site
- Hyattoceras turgidum1 site
- Kurdiceras latum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aricoceras ensifer, 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
3 references- Permian cephalopod limestones, Oman Mountains: evidence for a Permian seaway along the northern margin of Gondwana1
- Eine ammonoideen-fauna vom Sosio-typ (Guadalupian, Ober-Perm) aus Kurdistan (Irak)1
- La Fauna dei Calcari con Fusulina della Valle del Fiume Sosio nella Provincia di Palermo, Fasc. 1 - Ammonoidea1
Each of the 3 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 Aricoceras ensifer 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 Aricoceras ensifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aricoceras ensifer 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 itAricoceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gemmellaro 1887)