Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi

Not Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi. This is Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi (Sinzow, 1906), a relative — both are Douvilleiceratidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpichelonicerasPBDB
- 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.
16 occurrences of Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi 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
16 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
3 formations
- Risan Aneiza Formation6
- Ferruginous Sands Formation · Lower Greensand Group3
- La Peña Formation1
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The named rock units Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Ammonitoceras3 sites
- Acanthohoplites2 sites
- Aconeceras nisum2 sites
- Cheloniceras2 sites
- Cheloniceras buxtorfi2 sites
- Epicheloniceras subnodosocostatum2 sites
- Pseudoaustraliceras ramososeptatum2 sites
- Tropaeum2 sites
- Aconeceras nisoides1 site
- Ammonitoceras ackermanni1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Ancyloceras furcatum1 site
- Ancyloceras matheronianum1 site
- Astarte obovata1 site
- Australiceras mozambiquense1 site
- Barbatia aptiensis1 site
- Brainaella marcoulinense1 site
- Caseyella flexisulcata1 site
- Cheloniceras debile1 site
- Cheloniceras delagoense1 site
- Cheloniceras gottschei1 site
- Cheloniceras martinioides1 site
- Chilodonta1 site
- Colombiceras (Colombiceras) tobleri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi, 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
11 references- Cheloniceratinae Spath, 1923 (Ammonoidea, Douvilleiceratidae) in the upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of North Sinai, Egypt5
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand2
- A new ammonite fauna from the Walpenites horizon of the upper Aptian (Lower Cretaceous), Isle of Wight, southern England1
- Aptian-early Cenomanian ammonites from north Sinai, Egypt: systematic paleontology and biostratigraphy1
- Ammonite taxonomy and biostratigraphy for the upper Aptian-lower Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Cerro Chino, Chihuahua State, northeast Mexico1
- New and poorly known Aptian Acrioceratidae (Acrioceratidae, Ammonoidea) from Cassis - Roquefort-la-Bédoule (Bouches-du-Rhône, France)1
- Die geologische Entwicklung von Süd-Mozambique seit der Unterkreide und die Ammoniten-Fauna von Unterkreide und Cenoman1
- Einige Cephalopoden aus dem Apt des westlichen Norddeutschland1
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule IX (Aptien)1
- On records of re-deposited Lower Cretaceous fauna on northern slope of the south-east Caucasus1
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico1
Each of the 16 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
Media content1

Picture of Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi (Sinzow, 1906)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEpicheloniceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sinzow 1906)