Holcophylloceras
Searched as Holcophylloceras polyolcum caucasica. The Paleobiology Database treats Holcophylloceras as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalliphylloceratinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phylloceratida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Holcophylloceras 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
1 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 Holcophylloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Holcophylloceras and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Holcophylloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
938 taxa- Calliphylloceras disputabile19 sites
- Phylloceras14 sites
- Macrocephalites13 sites
- Sowerbyceras tortisulcatum13 sites
- Lytoceras12 sites
- Indocephalites11 sites
- Choffatia10 sites
- Calliphylloceras9 sites
- Pleurocephalites9 sites
- Ptychophylloceras9 sites
- Kamptokephalites8 sites
- Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides8 sites
- Phylloceras kudernatschi8 sites
- Astarte7 sites
- Euaspidoceras7 sites
- Lytoceras batesi7 sites
- Palaeonucula7 sites
- Phylloceras isotypum7 sites
- Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum7 sites
- Sowerbyceras silenum7 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea6 sites
- Aspidoceras6 sites
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)6 sites
- Liostrea6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Holcophylloceras, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Holcophylloceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Holcophylloceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCalliphylloceratinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1927