Liroceras choopani
No picture of Liroceras choopani 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 Liroceras choopani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LirocerasPBDB
- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Liroceras choopani on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Liroceras choopani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liroceras choopani and its relatives
PermianWhere Liroceras choopani and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Domatoceras elegantulum4 sites
- Permodomatoceras hamdii4 sites
- Permonautilus abichi4 sites
- Serometacoceras dorashamense4 sites
- Serometacoceras verae4 sites
- Serometacoceras dorsoarmatum3 sites
- Alibashinautilus vetus2 sites
- Domatoceras convergens2 sites
- Domatoceras multituberculatum2 sites
- Serometacoceras cingulum2 sites
- Serometacoceras inflatum2 sites
- Aifinautilus hebes1 site
- Alibashinautilus1 site
- Azarinautilus nahidae1 site
- Celeroliroceras celere1 site
- Corotainoceras inerme1 site
- Dolorthoceras1 site
- Domatoceras1 site
- Fididomatoceras intracostatum1 site
- Lopingoceras lopingense1 site
- Metacoceras1 site
- Michelinia vesiculosa1 site
- Nautilida1 site
- Neoaganides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Liroceras choopani, 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
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 Liroceras choopani 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 Liroceras choopani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liroceras choopani 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 itLiroceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korn and Ghaderi 2025