Dactylioceras toxophorum

No picture of Dactylioceras toxophorum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dactylioceras toxophorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DactyliocerasPBDB
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 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182.9 Mya180.4 Mya184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Dactylioceras toxophorum 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

2 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

2 formations

Jet Rock — 54.53°N, 0.71°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°W

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The named rock units Dactylioceras toxophorum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dactylioceras toxophorum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dactylioceras toxophorum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dactylioceras toxophorum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dactylioceras toxophorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dactylioceras toxophorum 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itDactylioceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buckman 1926)