Metoicoceras mosbyense
No picture of Metoicoceras mosbyense was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Metoicoceras mosbyense itself, so it was not used. 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 Metoicoceras mosbyense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetoicocerasPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Metoicoceras mosbyense 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
15 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Metoicoceras mosbyense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metoicoceras mosbyense and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Metoicoceras mosbyense and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Dunveganoceras (Dunveganoceras) albertense6 sites
- Dunveganoceras parvum4 sites
- Gyrodes4 sites
- Metoicoceras muelleri4 sites
- Calycoceras (Calycoceras) naviculare3 sites
- Rhynchostreon3 sites
- Aphrodina munda2 sites
- Camptonectes platessa2 sites
- Costagyra olisiponensis2 sites
- Cunningtoniceras2 sites
- Cunningtoniceras novimexicanum2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Lopha staufferi2 sites
- Moremanoceras costatum2 sites
- Phelopteria dalli2 sites
- Pinna petrina2 sites
- Plicatula2 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi2 sites
- Anchura1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Borissjakoceras1 site
- Cadulus1 site
- Calycoceras (Calycoceras) inflatum1 site
- Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) bruni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Metoicoceras mosbyense, 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- Cenomanian ammonite fauna from the Mosby Sandstone of central Montana8
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona3
- Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA2
- Diversity and Species Abundance Patterns in Late Cenomanian Black Shale Biofacies, Western Interior, U.S.1
- Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico1
Each of the 15 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Metoicoceras mosbyense was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Metoicoceras mosbyense itself, so it was not used.
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 Metoicoceras mosbyense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMetoicoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobban 1953