Beloceras

Beloceras is a genus of ammonites included in the family Beloceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Late Devonian period, from 379.5 to 376.1 Ma.

Beloceras

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BeloceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
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 62 of 62 occurrencesDevonian382–382 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–378 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 5 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 5 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 5 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 5 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 5 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 5 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 5 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences379 Mya375.2 Mya382.8 Mya371.6 Mya

62 occurrences of Beloceras 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

62 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

8 formations

Virgin Hills — 18.00°S, 126.00°EVirgin Hills — 18.50°S, 126.00°EVirgin Hills — 18.74°S, 126.08°EVirgin Hills — 18.63°S, 126.05°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EAdorf Bänderschiefer — 50.74°N, 8.36°EHuesa — 41.00°N, 1.00°WBudesheim — 50.74°N, 8.35°EFossil Downs — 18.20°S, 126.03°EHagen-Balve — 51.39°N, 7.87°EVogelsberg — 50.57°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Beloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beloceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Beloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Beloceras, 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

10 references

Each of the 62 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 Beloceras

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Beloceras 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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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 itBeloceratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884