Lytoceras saturnale
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LytocerasPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lytoceras saturnale on record, most of them in the Early 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- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lytoceras saturnale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lytoceras saturnale and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Lytoceras saturnale and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Kilianella crassiplicata2 sites
- Acrioceras hamlini1 site
- Acrioceras vespertinum1 site
- Acroteuthis shastensis1 site
- Anomia senescens1 site
- Belemnoteuthis (Conoteuthis) pacifica1 site
- Buchia crassicollis1 site
- Buchia keyserlingi1 site
- Crioceratites1 site
- Crioceratites latus1 site
- Lytoceras aulaeum1 site
- Neocraspedites giganteus1 site
- Ostrea indigena1 site
- Plicatula variata1 site
- Polyptychites trichotomus1 site
- Pseudothurmannia jupiter1 site
- Simbirskites (Hollisites)1 site
- Simbirskites broadi1 site
- Simbirskites lecontei1 site
- Thurmanniceras californicum1 site
- Venus collinium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lytoceras saturnale, 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- Ammonites of Early Cretaceous age (Valanginian and Hauterivian) from the Pacific Coast states3
- Structural and stratigraphic significance of the Buchia zones in the Colyear Springs-Paskenta Area, California1
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 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 Lytoceras saturnale 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 Lytoceras saturnale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lytoceras saturnale 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 itLytoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1938)