Knightoceras oxylobatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KnightocerasPBDB
- 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 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya.
7 occurrences of Knightoceras oxylobatum 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Knightoceras oxylobatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Knightoceras oxylobatum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Knightoceras oxylobatum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Pseudorthoceras knoxense3 sites
- Verneuilites pygmaeus3 sites
- Bactrites redactus1 site
- Branneroceras branneri1 site
- Endolobus1 site
- Ephippioceras ferratum1 site
- Glaphyrites morrowensis1 site
- Gordonites matheri1 site
- Liroceras patulum1 site
- Phaneroceras kesslerense1 site
- Proshumardites morrowanus1 site
- Pseudopronorites arkansiensis1 site
- Quinnites textum1 site
- Syngastrioceras oblatum1 site
- Winslowoceras henbesti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Knightoceras oxylobatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Knightoceras oxylobatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Knightoceras oxylobatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itKnightoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Downs 1948