Acanthopleuroceras

Searched as Cycloceras. The Paleobiology Database treats Acanthopleuroceras as the accepted name.

Cycloceras is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod genus from the Carboniferous of Western Europe, of unknown affinity with the Orthocerida.

Acanthopleuroceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TropidoceratinaePBDB
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 278 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 189.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 11 of 195 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 195 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 195 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 14 of 195 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 195 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 195 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 195 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 195 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 164 of 195 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 195 occurrences483–473 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences473–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–441 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences441–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–399 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences399–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–326 Mya — about 8 occurrences326–315 Mya — about 6 occurrences315–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–190 Mya — about 55 occurrences190–179 Mya — about 108 occurrences179–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468 Mya189.2 Mya483 Mya169 Mya

195 occurrences of Acanthopleuroceras 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

195 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

33 formations

Fannin — 52.76°N, 131.55°WFannin — 53.03°N, 131.88°WFannin — 53.41°N, 132.30°WFannin — 53.20°N, 132.05°WGhost Creek — 52.76°N, 131.55°WGhost Creek — 53.05°N, 131.93°WGhost Creek — 53.18°N, 132.02°WGhost Creek — 53.41°N, 132.30°WGhost Creek — 53.20°N, 132.05°WInklin — 59.34°N, 133.74°WInklin — 59.32°N, 133.77°WInklin — 59.22°N, 133.84°WInklin — 59.29°N, 133.98°WInklin — 59.30°N, 133.93°WInklin — 59.42°N, 134.00°WBelemnite Marls — 50.72°N, 2.85°WBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WSunrise — 38.49°N, 118.08°WSunrise — 39.33°N, 118.07°WChikunsan — 41.38°N, 128.17°EAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WShan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WParadise — 31.93°N, 100.22°WAdnet — 47.46°N, 13.56°ECrossdale Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WBentham Grit — 54.00°N, 2.83°WHonghuayuan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.17°N, 1.87°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°ESandilands — 52.76°N, 131.55°WBloyd Shale — 35.77°N, 94.38°WXiaYan — 40.00°N, 95.00°ESpatsizi — 57.49°N, 128.89°W

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The named rock units Acanthopleuroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 101 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthopleuroceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Acanthopleuroceras, 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

42 references

Each of the 195 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. 30 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 content1

Picture of Acanthopleuroceras

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No 3D scan of Acanthopleuroceras was found in Sketchfab.

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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1867