Aristoceras

Aristoceras is a Late Paleozoic goniatitid genus included in the Goniatitina suborder in which the lobes of the external suture are irregularly serrate.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThalassoceratidaePBDB
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 30 of 36 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 36 occurrencesPermian304–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 3 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 3 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya293.52 Mya304.2 Mya289.6 Mya

36 occurrences of Aristoceras on record. 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

36 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

4 formations

Graham — 33.25°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WCass Limestone — 37.08°N, 96.12°WOread — 38.62°N, 95.45°WLenox Hills — 30.25°N, 103.35°W

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The named rock units Aristoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Aristoceras, 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 36 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 Aristoceras 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 Aristoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aristoceras 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruzhencev 1950