Eleniceras stevrecensis
Eleniceras stevrecensis is an extinct species of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass. This animal lived 140–129 million years ago during the Hauterivian in Europe.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElenicerasPBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Eleniceras stevrecensis 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Eleniceras stevrecensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eleniceras stevrecensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Eleniceras stevrecensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Bochianites neocomiensis1 site
- Eleniceras tchechitevi1 site
- Haploceras1 site
- Lamellaptychus1 site
- Lytoceras1 site
- Neocomites1 site
- Neocomites (Teschenites) drumensis1 site
- Neocomites neocomiensis1 site
- Neolissoceras grasianum1 site
- Oosterella1 site
- Rodighieroites cardulus1 site
- Sabbaiceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eleniceras stevrecensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Eleniceras stevrecensis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Motekov
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eleniceras stevrecensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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 itEleniceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Breskovski 1967