Homoceras

No picture of Homoceras 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 Homoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HomoceratinaePBDB
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 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 322.8 Mya to 321.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.6 Mya to 321.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferous324–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–322 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322.8 Mya321.8 Mya324.1 Mya320.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Homoceras 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

20 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

3 formations

Crossdale Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WBogdanovsky — 52.32°N, 57.30°EBentham Grit — 54.00°N, 2.83°W

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The named rock units Homoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Homoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Homoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Homoceras, 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

3 references

Each of the 20 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 content0

No picture of Homoceras 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 Homoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Homoceras 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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What may have been alongside itHomoceratinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sepkoski 2002