Aulatornoceras

Aulatornoceras is a genus belonging to the subfamily Aulatornoceratinae, a member of the Goniatitida, an extinct order of shelled cephalopods included in the Ammonoidea. Aulatornoceras, which has been considered a subgenus of Tornoceras has ventro-lateral grooves. As with Tornoceras, the suture forms six lobes. The shell itself is involute.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulatornoceratinaePBDB
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 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 49 of 49 occurrencesDevonian382–382 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 2 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 2 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 3 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 3 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 3 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 3 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 3 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences379 Mya375.2 Mya382.8 Mya371.6 Mya

49 occurrences of Aulatornoceras on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

49 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

10 formations

Sand — 50.99°N, 7.16°ECashaqua — 42.77°N, 78.78°WCashaqua — 42.80°N, 78.68°WCashaqua — 42.87°N, 78.35°WCashaqua — 42.82°N, 78.08°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.92°WCashaqua — 42.70°N, 77.87°WCashaqua — 42.78°N, 77.65°WCashaqua — 42.72°N, 77.50°WAngola — 42.62°N, 79.08°WAngola — 42.68°N, 78.82°WAngola — 42.72°N, 78.67°WAngola — 42.72°N, 78.47°WGogo — 18.50°S, 126.00°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EVirgin Hills — 18.50°S, 126.00°ERhinestreet — 42.80°N, 78.17°WHanover — 42.67°N, 78.43°WLyaiol — 63.35°N, 53.75°EBüdesheim — 50.19°N, 6.51°E

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The named rock units Aulatornoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulatornoceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Aulatornoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Aulatornoceras, 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

8 references

Each of the 49 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 Aulatornoceras 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 Aulatornoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aulatornoceras 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
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAulatornoceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schindewolf 1922)