Hecticoceratinae

Hecticoceratinae

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OppeliidaePBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 314 of 374 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 61 of 374 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 374 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 7 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 72 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 72 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 72 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 72 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 32 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 17 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 17 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya157.9 Mya168.7 Mya142.6 Mya

374 occurrences of Hecticoceratinae on record. 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

374 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

18 formations

Habo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°E"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ELotena — 39.00°S, 70.00°WLotena — 37.00°S, 70.50°WLotena — 38.00°S, 71.00°WLotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLotena — 36.83°S, 71.00°WLotena — 36.00°S, 69.90°WLotena — 38.62°S, 70.17°WMarnes jaunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.87°N, 57.30°EGerpigem — 44.27°N, 40.17°EGerpigem — 44.08°N, 40.93°EGerpigem — 44.08°N, 40.95°ECroûte ferrugineuse — 46.65°N, 4.87°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ELos Molles — 37.00°S, 70.50°WDalles à Bryozoaires — 47.32°N, 5.00°EMenbu — 28.08°N, 86.00°ECalabozo — 35.18°S, 70.35°WBedford Canyon — 33.79°N, 117.60°WLa Manga — 36.21°S, 69.87°WCerritos Bayos — 22.56°S, 69.14°WGerpigem- Mezmayskaya — 44.13°N, 40.80°EOgrodzieniec Glauconitic Marl — 50.46°N, 19.52°E

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The named rock units Hecticoceratinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 292 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

599 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Hecticoceratinae, 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 374 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

Media content1

Picture of Hecticoceratinae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hecticoceratinae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1925