Libycoceras afikpoense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LibycocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Libycoceras afikpoense on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Libycoceras afikpoense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Libycoceras afikpoense and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Libycoceras afikpoense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni2 sites
- Didymoceras hornbyense2 sites
- Sphenodiscus lobatus2 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites asper1 site
- Bostrychoceras1 site
- Costacopluma concava1 site
- Didymoceras cheyennense1 site
- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) varicostatum1 site
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) egertoni1 site
- Pachydiscus stallauensis1 site
- Pseudoxybeloceras (Parasolenoceras) splendens1 site
- Sphenodiscus1 site
- Turritella nodosa1 site
- Venericardia crossensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Libycoceras afikpoense, 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
2 references- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons3
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Calabar region, south-east Nigeria1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Libycoceras afikpoense was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Libycoceras afikpoense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Libycoceras afikpoense was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLibycoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reyment 1955