Cheiloceras

Cheiloceras is a subglobular to thickly lenticular goniatite with a closed umbilicus from the Upper Devonian and type genus for the Cheiloceratidae.

Cheiloceras

Dr. René Hoffmann · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CheiloceratinaePBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 100 of 100 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 100 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 12 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 12 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 12 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 12 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 12 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 12 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 12 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 9 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

100 occurrences of Cheiloceras on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

100 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

7 formations

Nehden — 51.44°N, 8.65°EVirgin Hills — 18.00°S, 125.50°EGowanda — 42.40°N, 79.48°WGowanda — 42.43°N, 79.42°WGowanda — 42.50°N, 79.10°WGowanda — 42.50°N, 79.03°WGowanda — 42.40°N, 78.88°WGowanda — 42.52°N, 78.88°WGowanda — 42.65°N, 78.73°WGowanda — 42.65°N, 78.38°WKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°EShangdamingshan — 48.30°N, 118.20°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EGowanda Shale — 42.47°N, 79.17°W

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The named rock units Cheiloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheiloceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cheiloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Cheiloceras, 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

9 references

Each of the 100 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 content2

Picture of Cheiloceras

Credit
Dr. René Hoffmann
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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 was 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 itCheiloceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1897