Metophiceras

No picture of Metophiceras 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 Metophiceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
XenodiscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 71 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 65 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 71 occurrencesEarly Jurassic256–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 66 occurrences251–248 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences193–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences188–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.902 Mya199.5 Mya256 Mya183 Mya

71 occurrences of Metophiceras on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

71 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

11 formations

Wordie Creek — 71.73°N, 22.87°WWordie Creek — 71.68°N, 22.75°WWordie Creek — 71.00°N, 23.00°WWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 72.41°N, 23.49°WWordie Creek — 72.07°N, 23.75°WWordie Creek — 72.06°N, 23.87°WWordie Creek — 71.74°N, 22.55°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.60°WWordie Creek — 74.00°N, 21.51°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WWordie Creek — 71.60°N, 22.40°WFeixianguan — 32.31°N, 105.46°EFeixianguan — 26.33°N, 105.93°EFeixianguan — 32.62°N, 105.86°EKangshare — 28.27°N, 86.97°EKangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EChocolate — 30.14°N, 80.98°ETransitional Bed — 31.00°N, 120.00°EChangxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EKhunamuh — 34.08°N, 74.98°EKap Stosch — 73.80°N, 21.50°WDinwoody — 42.32°N, 111.25°WAdnet — 47.17°N, 9.99°EAdnet — 46.01°N, 25.47°E

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The named rock units Metophiceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metophiceras and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Metophiceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Metophiceras, 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

25 references

Each of the 71 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. 13 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

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No picture of Metophiceras 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 Metophiceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metophiceras 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 itXenodiscidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1935)