Asklepioceras

Asklepioceras is a genus in the Ceratitid family Arpaditidae from the Middle and Upper Triassic of Italy, Romania, Turkey, and British Columbia (Canada).

Asklepioceras

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnolcitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 244.4 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 6 of 23 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 17 of 23 occurrencesLate Triassic245–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244.9 Mya226.8 Mya

23 occurrences of Asklepioceras on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

23 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

6 formations

Toad — 56.47°N, 123.66°WToad — 59.27°N, 125.38°WToad — 56.67°N, 123.28°WLiard — 56.08°N, 122.87°WSan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°ESan Cassian — 46.64°N, 11.84°ELa Valle — 46.53°N, 11.42°ECataloi — 45.10°N, 28.73°E

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The named rock units Asklepioceras 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.

Asklepioceras and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Asklepioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Asklepioceras, 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 23 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 Asklepioceras

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No 3D scan of Asklepioceras 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

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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 itAnolcitinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Renz 1911)