Knightoceras

Knightoceras

West, E. P. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
TemnocheilidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 16 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPermian348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330.3 Mya290.1 Mya348 Mya282 Mya

18 occurrences of Knightoceras 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

18 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

4 formations

Hale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WHale — 36.02°N, 93.87°WBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EClyde — 33.62°N, 99.10°WClyde — 33.77°N, 99.10°WWitts Springs — 36.23°N, 93.31°W

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The named rock units Knightoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Knightoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Knightoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Knightoceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 18 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 content1

Picture of Knightoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
West, E. P.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Knightoceras 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 itTemnocheilidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Owen 1934