Ephippioceras ferratum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EphippiocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Ephippioceras ferratum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group4
- Hale Formation1
- Alvy Creek Formation · Breathitt Group1
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The named rock units Ephippioceras ferratum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ephippioceras ferratum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ephippioceras ferratum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Astartella concentrica5 sites
- Euphemites5 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense5 sites
- Straparollus5 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis5 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa4 sites
- Glabrocingulum4 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis4 sites
- Linoproductus cora4 sites
- Lophophyllidium4 sites
- Meekospira4 sites
- Neodimorphoceras texanum4 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi4 sites
- Worthenia tabulata4 sites
- Ammonoidea indet.3 sites
- Antiquatonia3 sites
- Bactrites3 sites
- Caninia3 sites
- Chonetinella3 sites
- Composita subtilita3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Euloxoceras greeni3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ephippioceras ferratum, 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
3 references- The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas4
- Paleontological survey of the Pennsylvanian rocks of the eastern Kentucky coal field: Part 1, invertebrates1
- Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas1
Each of the 6 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 Ephippioceras ferratum 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 Ephippioceras ferratum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ephippioceras ferratum 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 itEphippioceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cox 1857)