Euomphaloceras

Euomphaloceras is an early Upper Cretaceous ammonite genus,, included in the Acanthoceratinae until established as the type genus for the Euomphaloceratinae by Cooper, 1978.

Euomphaloceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuomphaloceratinaePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 49 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 49 of 49 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101 Mya85.2 Mya

49 occurrences of Euomphaloceras on record, most of them in the Late 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

49 occurrences

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

17 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.08°N, 111.07°WMancos Shale — 34.83°N, 108.97°WMancos Shale — 32.76°N, 108.57°WMancos Shale — 32.50°N, 107.70°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.21°N, 111.17°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.63°S, 36.91°WGreenhorn — 45.02°N, 104.30°WGreenhorn — 37.47°N, 104.11°WGreenhorn — 32.54°N, 107.71°WGreenhorn — 32.76°N, 108.67°WDölzschen — 51.02°N, 13.70°EDölzschen — 51.19°N, 13.55°EPanoche — 37.42°N, 121.37°WPanoche — 37.21°N, 121.23°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WBritton — 32.56°N, 97.04°WBritton — 32.51°N, 97.06°WOdukpani — 5.19°N, 8.27°ELa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.35°WMatanuska — 61.80°N, 147.58°WBelle Fourche — 44.28°N, 104.78°WSalinas — 14.19°S, 12.33°EChispa Summit — 30.71°N, 104.77°WWaltham — 36.11°N, 120.48°WCraie Glauconieuse — 49.08°N, 0.50°EColorado — 32.50°N, 107.70°W

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The named rock units Euomphaloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euomphaloceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Euomphaloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Euomphaloceras, 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

25 references

Each of the 49 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. 13 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

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3D model

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The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1923