Mercaticeras umbilicatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MercaticerasPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 182.9 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Mercaticeras umbilicatum on record, most of them in the Early 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
14 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mercaticeras umbilicatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mercaticeras umbilicatum and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Mercaticeras umbilicatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Polyplectus pluricostatus7 sites
- Hildoceras lusitanicum5 sites
- Hildoceras sublevisoni5 sites
- Phymatoceras elegans5 sites
- Calliphylloceras nilssoni4 sites
- Harpoceras (Harpoceras) mediterraneum4 sites
- Mercaticeras rursicostatum4 sites
- Phylloceras doderleinianum4 sites
- Calliphylloceras3 sites
- Frechiella kammerkarensis3 sites
- Harpoceras (Harpoceras) subexaratum3 sites
- Hildoceras3 sites
- Nodicoeloceras3 sites
- Phylloceras3 sites
- Phylloceras heterophyllum3 sites
- Furloceras anomalum2 sites
- Harpoceras2 sites
- Hildoceras caterinii2 sites
- Mercaticeras hellenicum2 sites
- Mercaticeras mercati2 sites
- Mercaticeras thyrrenicum2 sites
- Zugodactylites braunianus2 sites
- Audaxlytoceras1 site
- Catacoeloceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Mercaticeras umbilicatum, 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- Middle Toarcian Ammonitina from the Gerecse Mts, Hungary5
- Ammonite stratigraphy of a Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) section on Nagy-Pisznice Hill (Gerecse Mts, Hungary)3
- Cingolites n. gen., a new lower Toarcian Hildoceratinae (Ammonitina) from the Marchean Apennines (Cingoli, Macerata, Italy)3
- Remarks on the Toarcian-Aalenian fossil assemblage of the Kis-Teke Hill, Gerecse Mts (Hungary)2
- Lower Toarcian Ammonitida fauna and biostratigraphy of the Gerecse Mountains (Hungary)1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Mercaticeras umbilicatum 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 Mercaticeras umbilicatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mercaticeras umbilicatum 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 itMercaticeras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buckman 1913