Metacoceras cornutum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetacocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 306 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
18 occurrences of Metacoceras cornutum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
18 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group15
- Boggy Formation · Deese Group1
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group1
- McAlester Formation1
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The named rock units Metacoceras cornutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metacoceras cornutum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Metacoceras cornutum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
263 taxa- Pseudorthoceras knoxense16 sites
- Crinoidea15 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis15 sites
- Lophophyllidium14 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis14 sites
- Ammonoidea indet.13 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa13 sites
- Euphemites13 sites
- Glabrocingulum13 sites
- Paleyoldia13 sites
- Straparollus13 sites
- Worthenia tabulata13 sites
- Glaphyrites modestus12 sites
- Linoproductus cora12 sites
- Nautiloidea indet.12 sites
- Pteronites12 sites
- Schistoceras missouriense12 sites
- Antiquatonia11 sites
- Astartella concentrica11 sites
- Chonetinella11 sites
- Derbyia11 sites
- Ianthinopsis11 sites
- Kozlowskia11 sites
- Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) absitum11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Metacoceras cornutum, 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
4 references- The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas15
- Facies and fauna of the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry deposit: a review and new data on an important Palaeozoic fossil Lagerstätte with aragonite preservation1
- Some Additional Cephalopods from the Pennsylvanian of Ohio1
- Fauna of the McAlester Shale, Pennsylvanian, of Muskogee County, Oklahoma1
Each of the 18 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
Media content0
No picture of Metacoceras cornutum 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 Metacoceras cornutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metacoceras cornutum 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 itMetacoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1911