Hecticoceras hecticus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HecticocerasPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Hecticoceras hecticus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
3 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hecticoceras hecticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hecticoceras hecticus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Hecticoceras hecticus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Choffatia2 sites
- Indosphinctes2 sites
- Indosphinctes (Elatmites) curvicosta2 sites
- Indosphinctes pseudopatina2 sites
- Indosphinctes urbanus2 sites
- Kamptokephalites2 sites
- Pleurocephalites2 sites
- Reineckeia freii2 sites
- Reineckeites paronai2 sites
- Aulaconautilus bicarinatus1 site
- Brightia lugeoni1 site
- Choffatia furcula1 site
- Dictyothyris smithi1 site
- Digonella1 site
- Dolikephalites1 site
- Gowericeras1 site
- Indosphinctes besavoensis1 site
- Indosphinctes brenoni1 site
- Indosphinctes choffati1 site
- Indosphinctes peregrinus1 site
- Jeanneticeras1 site
- Kellawaysites1 site
- Kellawaysites argoviensis1 site
- Kellawaysites multicostatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Hecticoceras hecticus, 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
2 references- La succession des faunes dans le Callovien Francais, essais de corrélation à l'échelle de la zone2
- Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung1
Each of the 3 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Hecticoceras hecticus 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 Hecticoceras hecticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHecticoceras through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reinecke 1818)