Frenguelliceras
Frenguelliceras is an ammonite genus from the Lower Cretaceous included in the perisphinctoid family Neocomitidae named by Leanza in 1945. The type species, F. magister, is from the Valanginian,(Lower Cretaceous), of Argentina.
No picture of Frenguelliceras 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 Frenguelliceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeocomitinaePBDB
- 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 least 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 141 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 132.6 Mya.
4 occurrences of Frenguelliceras 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Frenguelliceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Frenguelliceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Frenguelliceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Spiticeras tripartitum3 sites
- Groebericeras rocardi2 sites
- Spiticeras (Spiticeras) spitiensis2 sites
- Argentiniceras1 site
- Berriasella (Malbosiceras) malbosi1 site
- Berriasella jacobi1 site
- Neocosmoceras sayni1 site
- Spiticeras1 site
- Spiticeras (Spiticeras) pricei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Frenguelliceras, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Frenguelliceras 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 Frenguelliceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Frenguelliceras 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNeocomitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leanza 1945