Docidoceras
No picture of Docidoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Docidoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OtoitidaePBDB
- 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 most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
52 occurrences of Docidoceras on record, most of them in the Middle 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
52 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Docidoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Docidoceras and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Docidoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Sonninia (Euhoploceras) bifurcata7 sites
- Graphoceras6 sites
- Witchellia sutneroides6 sites
- Eudmetoceras5 sites
- Lytoceras eudesianum5 sites
- Pseudotoites (Pseudotoites) argentinus5 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Fontannesia4 sites
- Graphoceras limitatum4 sites
- Haplopleuroceras4 sites
- Sonninia (Alaskinia) alaskensis4 sites
- Sonninia (Euhoploceras)4 sites
- Tugurites fastigatus4 sites
- Abbasites3 sites
- Bradfordia3 sites
- Euaptetoceras amplectens3 sites
- Graphoceras pulchrum3 sites
- Holcophylloceras costisparsum3 sites
- Nicaniella3 sites
- Palaeonucula hammeri3 sites
- Praeoppelia3 sites
- Praeoppelia oppeliiformis3 sites
- Pseudaptetoceras klimakomphalum3 sites
- Rugitela3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Docidoceras, 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
5 references- The ammonite fauna of the Kialagvik Formation at Wide Bay, Alaska Peninsula. Part II. Sonninia sowerbyi zone (Bajocian)40
- Proposition de la region de Rich (Haut-Atlas central marocain) comme stratotype auxiliaire submediterranen pour la limite Aalenien Bajocien6
- Ammonites from the Lower Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) beds of the classic locality of Bakonycsernye (Transdanubian Hungary), with special regard to the early otoitids and stephanoceratids3
- The Inferior Oolite at Coombe Quarry, near Mapperton, Dorset, and a new Middle Jurassic ammonite faunal horizon, Aa-3b, Leioceras comptocostosum n.biosp. in the Scissum Zone of the Lower Aalenian2
- La serie Jurasica de la unidad Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas (Zona Subbetica) [The Jurassic series of the Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas Unit (Subbetic Zone)]1
Each of the 52 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. 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
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No picture of Docidoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Docidoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Docidoceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOtoitidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buckman 1919