Metoicoceras

Metoioceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass which lived during the Cenomanian.

Metoicoceras

Peter Massicard · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
MammitinaePBDB
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 29 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 108 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 108 of 108 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 7 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 15 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 15 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 15 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 15 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 15 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 15 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

108 occurrences of Metoicoceras on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

108 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

31 formations

Belle Fourche — 44.06°N, 104.63°WBelle Fourche — 46.89°N, 108.51°WBelle Fourche — 46.01°N, 108.44°WBelle Fourche — 47.00°N, 107.88°WBelle Fourche — 47.85°N, 108.58°WBelle Fourche — 47.00°N, 108.49°WBelle Fourche — 44.15°N, 104.71°WBelle Fourche — 45.08°N, 104.53°WBelle Fourche — 44.08°N, 106.75°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 110.88°WMancos Shale — 36.16°N, 109.84°WMancos Shale — 34.44°N, 107.47°WMancos Shale — 34.83°N, 108.97°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WMancos Shale — 32.50°N, 107.70°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.29°N, 112.69°WGreenhorn — 44.05°N, 104.60°WGreenhorn — 32.53°N, 107.70°WGreenhorn — 32.76°N, 108.67°WGreenhorn — 45.02°N, 104.30°WGreenhorn — 37.47°N, 104.11°WBritton — 32.53°N, 97.04°WBritton — 32.51°N, 97.06°WBritton — 32.56°N, 97.04°WDölzschen — 51.05°N, 13.64°EDölzschen — 50.98°N, 13.71°EDölzschen — 50.96°N, 13.87°EColeraine — 47.32°N, 93.28°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WColeraine — 47.29°N, 93.43°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.84°N, 95.76°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.57°WColorado — 32.50°N, 107.70°WColorado — 32.80°N, 108.40°WDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WDakota — 36.33°N, 109.82°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WOdukpani — 5.13°N, 8.35°ETempleton — 33.87°N, 95.36°WTempleton — 33.63°N, 96.87°WFrontier — 43.73°N, 106.76°WFrontier — 42.87°N, 106.59°WPuentedey — 42.97°N, 3.69°WRhoundjaïa — 33.34°N, 0.83°EMancos — 36.80°N, 108.93°WSecond niveau de Calcaires à Rudistes — 45.95°N, 1.08°WLa Luna — 9.83°N, 70.05°WIndidura — 29.35°N, 101.05°WBlackstone — 52.38°N, 115.41°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WBrochterbeck — 52.10°N, 8.30°ECody Shale — 44.58°N, 107.93°W

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The named rock units Metoicoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metoicoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Metoicoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

345 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 95 sites for Metoicoceras, 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

38 references

Each of the 108 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. 26 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 content2

Picture of Metoicoceras

Credit
Peter Massicard
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1903