Mantelliceras

Mantelliceras is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Acanthoceratidae and type for the subfamily Mantelliceratinae, that lived from the Late Albian to the late Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

Mantelliceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MantelliceratinaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 198 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 197 of 198 occurrencesLate Cretaceous106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 12 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 13 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 13 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 13 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 13 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 13 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 13 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 13 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 13 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 13 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 13 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 12 occurrences106.8 Mya93.4 Mya

198 occurrences of Mantelliceras 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

198 occurrences

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

30 formations

Calcaires de Fiz — 46.09°N, 6.76°ECalcaires de Fiz — 46.04°N, 6.62°ECalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.69°ECalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.79°EBeer Head Limestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.75°N, 2.33°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.80°N, 2.67°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 50.59°N, 1.24°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.20°N, 2.18°WUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 2.67°WUpper Greensand — 50.78°N, 2.63°WAitamir — 36.20°N, 60.83°EAitamir — 36.23°N, 60.40°ESaint Jouin — 49.65°N, 0.17°ESaint Jouin — 49.55°N, 0.12°EMarnes Bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°EMarnes Bleues — 43.88°N, 6.86°EGlauconitic Marl — 52.33°N, 2.28°WBaddeckenstedt — 52.28°N, 7.45°EBuda Limestone — 30.05°N, 98.03°WBuda Limestone — 30.13°N, 97.82°WBuda Limestone — 30.26°N, 97.75°WCraie de Rouen — 48.60°N, 0.63°ESables du Lamnay — 48.60°N, 0.63°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.22°N, 5.53°EBuda Limestone — 29.30°N, 100.92°WBuda Limestone — 28.90°N, 100.62°WBuda Limestone — 27.33°N, 102.00°WSables de Montormel — 48.97°N, 0.05°WLower Chalk — 50.78°N, 2.63°WNaiba — 50.16°N, 155.26°ENagase — 33.75°N, 133.97°EIndidura — 26.42°N, 103.25°WMifume — 26.65°S, 32.31°EKolbay — 43.70°N, 53.98°EKingongo Marls — 10.02°S, 39.65°EHibernian Greensands — 54.63°N, 5.96°WCalcaires des Fiz — 45.97°N, 6.69°E

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The named rock units Mantelliceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 78 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mantelliceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mantelliceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Mantelliceras, 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

40 references

Each of the 198 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. 28 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 content1

Picture of Mantelliceras

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Hectonichus
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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No 3D scan of Mantelliceras 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMantelliceratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1903)