Cheloniceras

Cheloniceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CheloniceratinaePBDB
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 119.57 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 155 of 156 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 156 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 18 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 41 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 26 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 11 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 11 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 11 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 11 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 11 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119.57 Mya106.3 Mya122 Mya93.3 Mya

156 occurrences of Cheloniceras on record, most of them in the Early 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

156 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

24 formations

Ferruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.35°WFerruginous Sands — 50.65°N, 1.15°WHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°EHythe — 51.08°N, 1.08°EHythe — 51.15°N, 0.88°EHythe — 51.28°N, 0.53°EHythe — 51.25°N, 0.07°WLes Graous — 43.84°N, 7.08°ELa Peña — 25.43°N, 100.12°WLa Peña — 25.62°N, 100.46°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.56°WSanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.32°ESanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.12°ESandgate — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.12°N, 1.00°EChikanaga — 33.25°N, 132.75°EForcall — 40.54°N, 0.18°ETamzergout — 31.21°N, 7.88°WHammett Shale — 29.91°N, 98.36°WValle Grande — 10.25°N, 63.92°WTata Limestone — 47.65°N, 18.31°ERisan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.43°ERisan Aneiza — 30.86°N, 33.53°ESarcheshmah — 37.72°N, 56.12°ETadhart — 31.21°N, 7.88°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.68°EMakatini — 27.17°S, 32.17°EBhuj — 23.80°N, 68.90°EHammett — 29.82°N, 98.30°WLa Péna — 27.83°N, 101.92°WRiachuelo — 10.73°S, 37.20°WTellamendi — 43.00°N, 2.77°WTsukenai — 42.24°N, 142.83°E

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The named rock units Cheloniceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cheloniceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cheloniceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

314 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Cheloniceras, 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

31 references

Each of the 156 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. 19 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 Cheloniceras

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

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cheloniceras sp. · BGS:GSM:98603

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itCheloniceratinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1903