Epicheloniceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheloniceratinaePBDB
- 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 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
56 occurrences of Epicheloniceras 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
56 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
8 formations
- La Peña Formation15
- Ferruginous Sands Formation · Lower Greensand Group8
- Risan Aneiza Formation6
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation3
- Todai Formation3
- Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Epicheloniceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epicheloniceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Epicheloniceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Colombiceras14 sites
- Caseyella aguilerae12 sites
- Cheloniceras10 sites
- Dufrenoyia7 sites
- Acanthohoplites6 sites
- Tropaeum6 sites
- Ammonitoceras5 sites
- Dufrenoyia justinae4 sites
- Toxoceratoides4 sites
- Colombiceras spathi3 sites
- Deshayesites3 sites
- Dufrenoyia scotti3 sites
- Kazanskyella minima3 sites
- Neohibolites3 sites
- Parahoplites3 sites
- Toxaster3 sites
- Aconeceras nisoides2 sites
- Aconeceras nisum2 sites
- Barbatia aptiensis2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Cheloniceras buxtorfi2 sites
- Cheloniceras cornuelianum2 sites
- Cheloniceras debile2 sites
- Cheloniceras martinioides2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Epicheloniceras, 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
23 references- Ammonite biostratigraphy of two stratigraphic sections of the La Peña Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) in Nuevo León State, northeast Mexico13
- Cheloniceratinae Spath, 1923 (Ammonoidea, Douvilleiceratidae) in the upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of North Sinai, Egypt5
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand5
- Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonite fauna of the Todai Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Japan3
- A new ammonite fauna from the Walpenites horizon of the upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous), Isle of Wight, southern England3
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)3
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule IX (Aptien)3
- A new genus Kislovodskoceras (Desmoceratidae, Ammonoidea) from the middle Aptian of the vicinity of Kislovodsk (Northern Caucasus)2
- Ammonite taxonomy and biostratigraphy for the upper Aptian-lower Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Cerro Chino, Chihuahua State, northeast Mexico2
- New and poorly known Aptian Acrioceratidae (Acrioceratidae, Ammonoidea) from Cassis - Roquefort-la-Bédoule (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)2
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman2
- Einige Cephalopoden aus dem Apt des westlichen Norddeutschland2
Each of the 56 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. 11 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 content0
No picture of Epicheloniceras 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 Epicheloniceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epicheloniceras 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 itCheloniceratinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1954)