Gonioloboceras

Gonioloboceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonioloboceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 46 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 47 occurrencesPermian308–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 5 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 12 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 12 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 12 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya276.8 Mya307.8 Mya264.1 Mya

47 occurrences of Gonioloboceras 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

47 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

8 formations

Graham — 32.53°N, 98.87°WGraham — 31.80°N, 99.10°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.60°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.68°WGraham — 31.45°N, 99.33°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.11°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.22°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WStotler Limestone — 38.42°N, 96.18°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WBursum — 33.08°N, 105.98°WConemaugh — 40.67°N, 80.89°WNellie Bly — 36.15°N, 96.25°W

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The named rock units Gonioloboceras 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.

Gonioloboceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gonioloboceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Gonioloboceras, 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

10 references

Each of the 47 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 Gonioloboceras

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No 3D scan of Gonioloboceras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGonioloboceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1900