Imitoceras

Imitoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ImitoceratinaePBDB
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 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 365.2 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 15 of 77 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 60 of 77 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 77 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 1 occurrence367–363 Mya — about 5 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 8 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 20 occurrences356–352 Mya — about 21 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 15 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 6 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences365.2 Mya266.9 Mya374 Mya262 Mya

77 occurrences of Imitoceras 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

77 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

23 formations

Argiles de Teguentour — 26.69°N, 3.80°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.62°N, 3.84°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.59°N, 3.86°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.50°N, 3.91°EWangyou — 24.45°N, 108.30°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°EStourscombe — 50.63°N, 4.49°WDavis Spring — 39.22°N, 116.27°WRangari limestone — 30.76°S, 150.36°ERangari limestone — 30.75°S, 150.36°EWalls Ferry — 35.83°N, 91.86°WKuilyuk — 41.57°N, 70.07°EFlett — 63.88°N, 127.75°WDaihua — 25.73°N, 106.37°EBorden — 38.53°N, 83.48°WRockford Limestone — 38.88°N, 86.04°WCaballero — 32.88°N, 105.88°WLodgepole Limestone — 47.98°N, 108.55°WStotler Limestone — 38.42°N, 96.18°WZorritas — 24.50°S, 69.50°WExshaw — 52.43°N, 116.92°WPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WNamoi — 30.58°S, 150.60°EBoone — 35.86°N, 91.82°WDružetić — 44.42°N, 19.81°EAkbaital — 38.47°N, 74.37°EGatepost — 50.61°N, 4.37°WYeolmbridge — 50.66°N, 4.38°W

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The named rock units Imitoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Imitoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Imitoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Imitoceras, 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

24 references

Each of the 77 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. 12 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

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Picture of Imitoceras

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iDigBio
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CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itImitoceratinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schindewolf 1923)