Cleoniceras

Cleoniceras is a rather involute, high-whorled hoplitid from the Lower to basal Middle Albian of Europe, Madagascar, and the Transcaspian region. The shell has a generally small umbilicus, arched to acute venter, and typically at some growth stage, falcoid ribs that spring in pairs from umbilical tubercles, usually disappearing on the outer whorls.

Cleoniceras

Antonov · Public Domain · 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
CleoniceratidaePBDB
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 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 44 of 45 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 7 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 16 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 10 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110.1 Mya100.5 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

45 occurrences of Cleoniceras 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

45 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

10 formations

Folkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EFolkestone — 51.27°N, 0.08°EFolkestone — 51.32°N, 0.32°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WMonk’s Bay Sandstone — 50.60°N, 1.32°WPeace River — 56.23°N, 117.28°WHaida — 53.05°N, 131.78°WKamiji — 44.69°N, 142.13°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°EPiedra Clavada — 48.96°S, 71.37°WSanganeh — 36.58°N, 60.13°EHudspeth — 44.60°N, 120.20°W? — 49.11°S, 72.03°W

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The named rock units Cleoniceras 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.

Cleoniceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Cleoniceras, 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

15 references

Each of the 45 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. 3 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 Cleoniceras

Credit
Antonov
Licence
Public Domain
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

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 itCleoniceratidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parona and Bonarelli 1897