Eutomoceras

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratitidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
51 occurrences of Eutomoceras on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
51 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
5 formations
- Prida Formation · Star Peak Group22
- Botneheia Formation · Sassendalen Group5
- Chaiburi Formation · Lampang Group3
- Bravaisberget Formation · Sassendalen Group3
- Kongressfjellet Formation · Sassendalen Group2
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The named rock units Eutomoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eutomoceras and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Eutomoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Gymnotoceras blakei12 sites
- Trematoceras elegans10 sites
- Longobardites parvus9 sites
- Frechites nevadanus8 sites
- Tropigastrites louderbacki8 sites
- Aplococeras vogdesi7 sites
- Frechites occidentalis7 sites
- Tozerites gemmellaroi6 sites
- Tropigastrites lahontanus6 sites
- Aplococeras parvus5 sites
- Atractites solidus5 sites
- Calliconites nevadensis5 sites
- Daonella moussoni5 sites
- Longobardites zsigmondyi5 sites
- Parafrechites dunni5 sites
- Parafrechites meeki5 sites
- Proarcestes gabbi5 sites
- Aplococeras smithi4 sites
- Proarcestes balfouri4 sites
- Daonella americana3 sites
- Daonella dubia3 sites
- Humboldtites septentrionalis3 sites
- Marcouxites spinifer3 sites
- Mysidioptera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Eutomoceras, 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
15 references- Middle Triassic Molluscan Fossils of Biostratigraphic Significance from the Humboldt Range, Northwestern Nevada24
- The Middle Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America5
- New records of nautiloid and ammonoid cephalopod fossils in peninsular Thailand3
- New Middle and Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) Ammonoid Faunas From Northwestern Nevada(USA): Taxonomy and Biochronology3
- Fazielle Verhältnisse des Mesozoikums im Eisfjordgbiet Spitzbergens3
- The main features of the Geological structure of Barentsøya2
- Stratigraphy and composition of the Mesozoic deposits in central Vestspitsbergen2
- On the Occurrence of an Anisic Fauna in the Tunglan District, Kwangsi2
- Anisian-Ladinian Boundary in Boreal Region Based on Ammonoidea1
- The Triassic stratigraphy of Svalbard1
- Mesozoic deposits around Van Keulenfjorden Vestspitsbergen1
- Untersuchungen über die fauna, die stratigraphie und paläogeographie der Trias Spitzbergens1
Each of the 51 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Eutomoceras
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eutomoceras 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 itCeratitidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1877