Metaderoceras

Metaderoceras

Orbigny (d') · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
EoderoceratinaePBDB
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 27 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 267 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 267 of 267 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 267 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence198–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–193 Mya — about 6 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 23 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 23 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 23 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 24 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 30 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 30 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 30 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 34 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 25 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

267 occurrences of Metaderoceras 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

267 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

19 formations

Fannin — 52.76°N, 131.55°WFannin — 53.05°N, 131.93°WFannin — 53.18°N, 132.02°WFannin — 53.38°N, 132.27°WFannin — 53.20°N, 132.05°WInklin — 59.34°N, 133.73°WInklin — 59.32°N, 133.77°WInklin — 59.22°N, 133.83°WInklin — 59.20°N, 133.90°WInklin — 59.29°N, 133.98°WInklin — 59.29°N, 133.95°WInklin — 59.38°N, 133.92°WInklin — 59.42°N, 134.00°WSpatsizi — 57.49°N, 128.89°WGhost Creek — 52.76°N, 131.55°WGhost Creek — 53.03°N, 131.88°WGhost Creek — 53.18°N, 132.02°WGhost Creek — 53.41°N, 132.30°WGhost Creek — 53.20°N, 132.05°WSierra de Santa Rosa — 30.06°N, 111.65°WSierra de Santa Rosa — 29.70°N, 112.27°WSunrise — 38.49°N, 118.08°WSunrise — 39.33°N, 118.07°WCold Fish Volcanics — 57.50°N, 128.90°WCold Fish Volcanics — 57.67°N, 128.86°WCold Fish Volcanics — 57.68°N, 129.04°WCold Fish Volcanics — 57.67°N, 128.84°WCold Fish Volcanics — 57.72°N, 129.18°WOust — 36.37°N, 10.09°EOust — 36.35°N, 10.07°EOust — 36.24°N, 9.99°EOust — 36.17°N, 9.92°ETűzkövesárok Limestone — 47.28°N, 18.08°EAllgäu — 47.18°N, 9.98°EAllgäu — 47.15°N, 10.10°EIsztimér Limestone — 47.19°N, 17.87°EMaude — 53.17°N, 132.03°WMaude — 53.32°N, 132.48°WAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WLower Limestone — 54.70°N, 126.68°WZagwhan — 36.35°N, 10.12°EDjorf Touka — 35.87°N, 1.62°EBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WChoucht to Agoudim — 31.94°N, 4.96°WAdnet — 47.17°N, 9.99°E

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The named rock units Metaderoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metaderoceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Metaderoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Metaderoceras, 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

29 references

Each of the 267 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. 17 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 Metaderoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orbigny (d')
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itEoderoceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1925