Lissoceras erato

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- LissocerasPBDB
- 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 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
8 occurrences of Lissoceras erato on record, most of them in the Late 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
8 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Lissoceras erato has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lissoceras erato and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Lissoceras erato and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Euaspidoceras3 sites
- Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites)3 sites
- Lytoceras3 sites
- Perisphinctes3 sites
- Perisphinctes (Discosphinctes)3 sites
- Ptychophylloceras3 sites
- Aspidoceras2 sites
- Epimayaites2 sites
- Epimayaites axonoides2 sites
- Epimayaites evolutus2 sites
- Epimayaites falcoides2 sites
- Klematosphinctes2 sites
- Lithacoceras2 sites
- Orthosphinctes2 sites
- Partschiceras2 sites
- Paryphoceras2 sites
- Peltoceratoides pressulus2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) polymorphus2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes)2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) antecedens2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) irregularis2 sites
- Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) nerunaensis2 sites
- Taramelliceras (Proscaphites) anar2 sites
- Alcidia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lissoceras erato, 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
5 references- Oxfordian and late Callovian ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Neuquen-Mendoza and Tarapaca Basins (Jurassic, Ammonoidea, Western South-America)2
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires2
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (ammonites) - Fascicule IV (Argovien - Rauracien)2
- The ammonite fauna of the La Manga Formation (Late Callovian-Early Oxfordian) of Vega de la Veranada, Neuquén Basin, Argentina1
- Les "Marnes à theoi" de Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres, France), Sous-Zone à Antecedens (Oxfordien moyen, Zone à Plicatilis): diversité des faunes et découverte de nouvelles espèces d'ammonites [The "Theoi Marls" of Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres department, France), Antecedens Sub-zone (Middle Oxfordian, Plicatilis Zone): faunal diversity and discovery of new ammonite species]1
Each of the 8 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 Lissoceras erato
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lissoceras erato 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 itLissoceras through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)