Meekoceras caucasium
No picture of Meekoceras caucasium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Meekoceras caucasium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeekocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Meekoceras caucasium on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Meekoceras caucasium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meekoceras caucasium and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Meekoceras caucasium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Arctoceras kiparisovae1 site
- Arctoceras robinsoni1 site
- Dieneroceras caucasicum1 site
- Dieneroceras magnum1 site
- Inyoites oweni1 site
- Juvenites sinuosus1 site
- Lanceolites bicarinatus1 site
- Lanceolites compactus1 site
- Meekoceras gracilitatis1 site
- Owenites koeneni1 site
- Parussuria compressa1 site
- Preflorianites toulai1 site
- Prosphingitoides austini1 site
- Subowenites slavini1 site
- Subvishnuites welteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Meekoceras caucasium, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meekoceras caucasium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Meekoceras caucasium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meekoceras caucasium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMeekoceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shevyrev 1995