Dactylioceras

Dactylioceras was a widespread genus of ammonites from the Lower Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago (mya).Like many other ammonites, the genus Dactylioceras is extremely important in biostratigraphy, being a key index fossil for identifying their region of the Jurassic. It had a nearly cosmopolitan distribution during the time it existed.

Dactylioceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DactylioceratinaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 496 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 494 of 496 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 496 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 496 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–191 Mya — about 4 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 4 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 317 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 43 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 35 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 21 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 17 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 17 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 15 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199.5 Mya180.4 Mya202.2 Mya160.7 Mya

496 occurrences of Dactylioceras 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

496 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

49 formations

Nishinakayama — 34.25°N, 131.00°EAlum Shale — 54.49°N, 0.60°WAlum Shale — 54.40°N, 0.47°WCamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WSunrise — 38.49°N, 118.10°WSunrise — 39.33°N, 118.07°WSpatsizi — 57.87°N, 129.57°WSpatsizi — 57.87°N, 128.57°WSpatsizi — 57.62°N, 128.97°WSpatsizi — 57.49°N, 128.87°WJet Rock — 54.54°N, 0.76°WJet Rock — 54.54°N, 0.75°WJet Rock — 54.48°N, 0.58°WJet Rock — 54.40°N, 0.49°WCastillo Pedroso — 43.15°N, 4.37°WBugarone — 43.33°N, 13.22°ECastillo Pedros — 42.89°N, 3.98°WLautaro — 28.20°S, 70.00°WLautaro — 28.14°S, 69.97°WLautaro — 28.25°S, 69.93°WLautaro — 28.31°S, 69.96°WLautaro — 28.16°S, 69.86°WLautaro — 28.15°S, 69.79°WLautaro — 28.02°S, 69.72°WLautaro — 27.70°S, 69.61°WLautaro — 27.91°S, 69.98°WBayada — 35.08°N, 1.77°WFannin — 53.18°N, 132.02°WSubbetic Basin — 37.70°N, 3.63°WSubbetic Basin — 37.38°N, 3.71°WTagoudite — 31.95°N, 5.04°WPosidonienschiefer — 49.35°N, 11.36°EFernie — 51.75°N, 115.53°WFernie — 53.25°N, 118.25°WFernie — 50.92°N, 115.00°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WOzirovo — 43.22°N, 23.39°EOzirovo — 41.52°N, 24.67°ESchistes Cartons — 43.85°N, 3.12°EOuchbis — 32.59°N, 4.52°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°WSmithers — 56.21°N, 126.35°WKisgerecse — 47.66°N, 18.47°ETalkeetna — 61.73°N, 148.50°WTalkeetna — 61.85°N, 147.41°W

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The named rock units Dactylioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 179 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dactylioceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

275 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 297 sites for Dactylioceras, and this reads 240 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

71 references

Each of the 496 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. 59 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 Dactylioceras

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Kevmin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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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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 itDactylioceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

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