Metadimorphoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyphiolobinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 318.6 Mya.
10 occurrences of Metadimorphoceras 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
10 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
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The named rock units Metadimorphoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metadimorphoceras and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Metadimorphoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Girtyoceras hamiltonense3 sites
- Goniatites americanus3 sites
- Calygirtyoceras arcticum2 sites
- Entogonites2 sites
- Goniatites eganensis2 sites
- Goniatites sowerbyi2 sites
- Praedaraelites loeblichi2 sites
- Anthracoceras1 site
- Asturoceras1 site
- Calygirtyoceras1 site
- Calygirtyoceras confusionense1 site
- Cancelloceras huntsvillense1 site
- Chaenocardiola1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Cravenoceras1 site
- Cymoceras1 site
- Dimorphoceras rileyi1 site
- Dimorphoceras worki1 site
- Entogonites borealis1 site
- Entogonites burbankensis1 site
- Eumorphoceras1 site
- Girtyoceras1 site
- Girtyoceras primum1 site
- Kazakhoceras bylundi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Metadimorphoceras, 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- Goniatites Zone (middle Mississippian) ammonoids of the Antler Foreland Basin (Nevada, Utah)7
- Geology of the country around Lancaster1
- Asturoceras and other dimorphoceratid ammonoids from the Namurian (E2) of Lancashire1
- Lower Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) ammonoids from the North American midcontinent1
Each of the 10 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 Metadimorphoceras 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 Metadimorphoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metadimorphoceras 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 itGlyphiolobinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore 1958