Canadoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachydiscidaePBDB
- 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 least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.
78 occurrences of Canadoceras on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
78 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
13 formations
- Bykov Formation19
- Chico Formation · Asuncion Group14
- Chignik Formation13
- Krasnoyarka Formation3
- Forbes Formation · Asuncion Group3
- Chinomigawa Formation · Yezo Group3
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The named rock units Canadoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Canadoceras and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Canadoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Baculites chicoensis9 sites
- Sphenoceramus schmidti9 sites
- Biplica obliqua6 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides5 sites
- Anchura falciformis4 sites
- Baculites4 sites
- Inoceramus subundatus4 sites
- Perissitys brevirostris4 sites
- Submortoniceras chicoense4 sites
- Volutoderma averillii4 sites
- Anapachydiscus fascicostatus3 sites
- Astarte tuscana3 sites
- Baculites inornatus3 sites
- Calva (Egelicalva) bowersiana3 sites
- Gigantocapulus giganteus3 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii3 sites
- Glyptoxoceras3 sites
- Inoceramus schmidti3 sites
- Inoceramus vancouverensis3 sites
- Pachydiscus buckhami3 sites
- Pseudoxybeloceras lineatum3 sites
- Saghalinites teshioensis3 sites
- Tetragonites popetensis3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Canadoceras, 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
14 references- Stratigraphy and fossil assemblages of the Upper Cretaceous system in the Makarov area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East21
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III19
- Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska17
- Part I. Ammonites from the Upper Campanian of the Teshio Mountains5
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast5
- Discovery of the middle Campanian (Late Cretaceous) "Soya Fauna" ammonoids in the Hidaka area, Hokkaido, Japan2
- O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte2
- Middle and late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Urakawa area, Hokkaido, northern Japan1
- New Cretaceous and Eocene decapoda (Astacidea, Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from British Columbia, Canada1
- New species of Patellogastropoda (Mollusca) from the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan and Sakhalin, Russia1
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
- Geology of the Alaska Peninsula-island arc and continental margin (Part 1)1
Each of the 78 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Canadoceras
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Canadoceras 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 itPachydiscidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922