Cenoceras astacoides

Cenoceras astacoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CenocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 182.9 Mya and 180.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic183–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183.4 Mya179.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Cenoceras astacoides 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

5 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.

Cenoceras astacoides and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cenoceras astacoides and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cenoceras astacoides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cenoceras astacoides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCenoceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young and Bird 1832)