Catacoeloceras

Catacoeloceras is a genus of ammonite that lived during Middle Toarcian stage of early Jurassic. Members of this genus existed from the Bifrons Subzone of the Bifrons Zone to the Variabilis Zone. Their fossils have been found in Europe, northern Africa, Asia, North America and South America. It is believed to have evolved from Porpoceras.

Catacoeloceras

Tylwyth Eldar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
DactylioceratinaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 141 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 140 of 141 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 141 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 12 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 16 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 20 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 22 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 22 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 22 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 20 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199.5 Mya180.4 Mya202.1 Mya164.6 Mya

141 occurrences of Catacoeloceras on record, most of them in the Early 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

141 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

15 formations

Alum Shale — 54.49°N, 0.60°WAlum Shale — 54.40°N, 0.47°WKisgerecse — 47.70°N, 18.43°EKisgerecse — 47.66°N, 18.47°EMarnes de Fontaneilles — 43.85°N, 3.12°ESubbetic Basin — 37.59°N, 3.21°WSubbetic Basin — 38.13°N, 1.47°WKisgerecse Marl — 47.70°N, 18.49°EJurensismergel — 48.83°N, 10.10°EBrentskardhaugen — 77.19°N, 15.92°EBrentskardhaugen — 77.02°N, 16.23°ECamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WPosidonienschiefer — 49.91°N, 11.46°EOhautira Conglomerate — 37.65°S, 175.00°EStaffelegg — 47.88°N, 8.56°EPeak Shale — 54.40°N, 0.47°WOzirovo — 43.22°N, 23.39°EBrentskardhaugen Bed — 77.02°N, 16.22°EAgardfjellet — 77.62°N, 15.01°E

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The named rock units Catacoeloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Catacoeloceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Catacoeloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Catacoeloceras, 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

27 references

Each of the 141 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. 15 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 content2

Picture of Catacoeloceras

Credit
Tylwyth Eldar
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itDactylioceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.