Beyrichoceratoides

Beyrichoceras is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Muensteroceratidae, a group of ammonoids, extinct shelled cephalopods related to belemnites and recent coleoids and more distantly to the nautiloids

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MuensteroceratidaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferous348–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 4 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 4 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 4 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–303 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339.9 Mya306 Mya347.6 Mya302.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Beyrichoceratoides on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

20 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

9 formations

Lower Limestone — 55.75°N, 4.64°WLower Limestone — 55.73°N, 3.84°WLower Limestone — 56.12°N, 3.47°WLower Limestone — 55.76°N, 4.24°WLower Limestone — 55.93°N, 4.43°WDružetić — 44.42°N, 19.81°EKirkwood — 55.77°N, 4.13°WKirkwood — 55.69°N, 4.01°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°WGullane — 56.00°N, 2.52°WLawmuir — 55.86°N, 4.41°WCalciferous Sandstone — 56.04°N, 3.36°WHodder Mudstone — 52.86°N, 2.37°W

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The named rock units Beyrichoceratoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beyrichoceratoides and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Beyrichoceratoides and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Beyrichoceratoides, 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 20 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 Beyrichoceratoides 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 Beyrichoceratoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Beyrichoceratoides 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bisat 1924