Berniceras inconspicuum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BernicerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 159 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Berniceras inconspicuum on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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.
Berniceras inconspicuum and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Berniceras inconspicuum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Bonarellia bicostata3 sites
- Brightia sveva3 sites
- Brightia brighti2 sites
- Brightia salvadori2 sites
- Fehlmannites jurensis2 sites
- Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras)2 sites
- Hecticoceras lairense2 sites
- Kosmoceras spinosum2 sites
- Lunuloceras lunuloides2 sites
- Orbignyceras paulowi2 sites
- Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum2 sites
- Oxycerites subcostarius2 sites
- Putealiceras2 sites
- Rollieria2 sites
- Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) argoviense2 sites
- Bonarellia nodulosa1 site
- Brightia metomphala1 site
- Bukowskites distortus1 site
- Calliphylloceras demidoffi1 site
- Campylites delmontanus1 site
- Campylites helveticus1 site
- Campylites secula1 site
- Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) scarburgense1 site
- Concavites parallelus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Berniceras inconspicuum, 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
2 references- Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung3
- L'Oxfordien dans la moitié sud du Jura francais - etude stratigraphique1
Each of the 4 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 Berniceras inconspicuum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Berniceras inconspicuum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Berniceras inconspicuum was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itBerniceras through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Loriol 1898)