Manticoceras

Manticoceras is a genus of agoniatitid ammonoids included in the family Gephuroceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Devonian period, from 382.4 to 376.1 Ma.

Manticoceras

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
GephuroceratinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 368.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 295 of 295 occurrencesDevonian382–382 Mya — about 4 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 4 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 4 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 4 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 6 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 10 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 10 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 10 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 10 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 10 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 10 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 10 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 22 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 31 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 31 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 31 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 31 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 31 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 18 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379 Mya372.15 Mya382.8 Mya368 Mya

295 occurrences of Manticoceras on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

295 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

22 formations

Lyaiol — 63.35°N, 53.78°ELyaiol — 63.35°N, 53.80°ELyaiol — 63.15°N, 53.80°ELyaiol — 63.34°N, 53.71°ELyaiol — 63.12°N, 53.85°EVirgin Hills — 18.50°S, 126.00°EVirgin Hills — 18.00°S, 126.00°EVirgin Hills — 18.74°S, 126.08°EVirgin Hills — 18.63°S, 126.05°EDomanik — 63.55°N, 53.37°EDomanik — 63.53°N, 53.42°EDomanik — 63.51°N, 53.61°EDomanik — 63.34°N, 53.71°ECashaqua — 42.68°N, 78.93°WCashaqua — 42.80°N, 78.68°WCashaqua — 42.85°N, 78.48°WCashaqua — 42.87°N, 78.35°WCashaqua — 42.88°N, 78.17°WCashaqua — 42.82°N, 78.08°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.92°WCashaqua — 42.70°N, 77.87°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.72°WCashaqua — 42.78°N, 77.55°WCashaqua — 42.72°N, 77.50°WCashaqua — 42.77°N, 77.40°WCashaqua — 42.78°N, 77.32°WCashaqua — 42.73°N, 77.33°WCashaqua — 42.65°N, 77.37°WCashaqua — 42.63°N, 77.37°WGogo — 18.50°S, 126.00°EGogo — 18.66°S, 126.07°EGogo — 18.40°S, 125.85°EGogo — 18.57°S, 125.95°ESand — 50.99°N, 7.16°EAngola — 42.62°N, 79.08°WAngola — 42.63°N, 79.02°WAngola — 42.68°N, 78.82°WAngola — 42.72°N, 78.67°WAngola — 42.72°N, 78.47°WAngola — 42.70°N, 78.13°WAngola — 42.63°N, 78.04°WAngola — 42.75°N, 78.30°WRhinestreet — 42.80°N, 78.68°WRhinestreet — 42.75°N, 78.30°WRhinestreet — 42.70°N, 78.13°WRhinestreet — 42.80°N, 78.17°WCoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EGenundewa — 42.88°N, 78.33°WGenundewa — 42.77°N, 77.82°WGenundewa — 42.73°N, 77.32°WBüdesheim — 50.19°N, 6.51°ELong Rapids — 51.00°N, 82.00°WLong Rapids — 50.40°N, 81.56°WOlentangy Shale — 40.00°N, 83.00°WAmana Beds — 41.68°N, 92.07°WHuesa — 41.00°N, 1.00°WWest River Shale — 42.77°N, 77.88°WBergisch Gladbach — 50.97°N, 7.15°ENerpalakh — 75.56°N, 135.63°EFossil Downs — 18.20°S, 126.03°ESadler — 18.39°S, 125.73°EUst-Yarega — 63.53°N, 53.41°EPlattensandstein — 51.28°N, 7.18°E

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The named rock units Manticoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Manticoceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Manticoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 185 sites for Manticoceras, 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

21 references

Each of the 295 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. 9 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 Manticoceras

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGephuroceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1884)