Lissoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LissoceratidaePBDB
- 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 least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 145.06 Mya.
68 occurrences of Lissoceras on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
68 occurrencesThese 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
21 formations
- Chaloi Formation6
- Erice Formation4
- Tsudakhar Formation3
- "Berching" Formation2
- Lotena Formation2
- Oolithe de Bayeux Formation2
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The named rock units Lissoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lissoceras and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Lissoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
483 taxa- Euaspidoceras7 sites
- Ptychophylloceras5 sites
- Calliphylloceras disputabile4 sites
- Lytoceras4 sites
- Oppelia (Oppelia) subradiata4 sites
- Oxycerites4 sites
- Perisphinctes4 sites
- Campylites delmontanus3 sites
- Campylites helveticus3 sites
- Euaspidoceras douvillei3 sites
- Euaspidoceras freii3 sites
- Euaspidoceras ovale3 sites
- Extranodites cailleti3 sites
- Holcophylloceras zignodianum3 sites
- Integricardium3 sites
- Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites)3 sites
- Ochetoceras3 sites
- Parkinsonia parkinsoni3 sites
- Partschiceras3 sites
- Peltoceratoides (Parawedekindia) arduennensis3 sites
- Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) polymorphus3 sites
- Perisphinctes (Discosphinctes)3 sites
- Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) irregularis3 sites
- Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) nerunaensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Lissoceras, 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
26 references- Besnosov and Mitta, 199314
- Lissoceras monachum (Gemmellaro), a ghost Ammonitida of the Tethyan Bathonian9
- Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung7
- Biostratigraphy of the Lower and Middle Jurassic deposits of the Far East5
- Zur Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie der Tendaguruschichten4
- Bajocian-Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites from the Polish Jura. Part 1: Families Phylloceratidae, Nannolytoceratidae, Sonniniidae, Strigoceratidae, Oppeliidae and Lissoceratidae3
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires3
- Dimorphinites (Ammonoidea, Jurassic, upper Bajocian) in the precordillera of northern Chile2
- Oxfordian and late Callovian ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Neuquen-Mendoza and Tarapaca Basins (Jurassic, Ammonoidea, Western South-America)2
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]2
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (ammonites) - Fascicule IV (Argovien - Rauracien)2
- Rare and new Late Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites from Monte Kumeta, western Sicily1
Each of the 68 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. 14 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
Media content2
Picture of Lissoceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itLissoceratidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1879