Euloxoceras

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpyroceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 106 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
52 occurrences of Euloxoceras 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
52 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group22
- Imo Formation11
- Fayetteville Formation9
- Pitkin Formation7
- Karakavak Formation1
- Bloyd Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Euloxoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Euloxoceras and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Euloxoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
353 taxa- Pseudorthoceras knoxense22 sites
- Crinoidea20 sites
- Lophophyllidium20 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis20 sites
- Composita subtilita19 sites
- Glabrocingulum19 sites
- Glaphyrites modestus19 sites
- Kozlowskia19 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis19 sites
- Worthenia tabulata19 sites
- Astartella concentrica18 sites
- Meekospira18 sites
- Nautiloidea indet.18 sites
- Reticycloceras croneisi18 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa17 sites
- Euphemites17 sites
- Gonioloboceras goniolobus17 sites
- Linoproductus cora17 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis17 sites
- Schistoceras missouriense17 sites
- Straparollus17 sites
- Neobistrialites16 sites
- Paleyoldia16 sites
- Tainoceras monilifer16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Euloxoceras, 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
4 references- Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas28
- The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas22
- Early Devonian (Pragian) gastropods from Kyrgyzstan (central Asia)1
- A new blastoid fauna from the lower Namurian of North Kazachstan (U.S.S.R.)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
Media content1

Picture of Euloxoceras
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- iDigBio
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Euloxoceras 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 itSpyroceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller et al. 1933