Micracanthoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HimalayitinaePBDB
- 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 least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 137.05 Mya.
52 occurrences of Micracanthoceras on record, most of them in the Late 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
52 occurrencesThese 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
14 formations
- Lo Valdés Formation8
- Punta Moreno Formation · Chicama Group7
- Les Marno-Calcaires Supérieurs Formation2
- Sapotal Formation · Chicama Group2
- Baños del Flaco Formation2
- La Caja Formation2
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The named rock units Micracanthoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micracanthoceras and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Micracanthoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Substeueroceras8 sites
- Corongoceras6 sites
- Berriasella3 sites
- Himalayites3 sites
- Paraulacosphinctes3 sites
- Parodontoceras3 sites
- Aulacosphinctes2 sites
- Aulacosphinctes proximus2 sites
- Corongoceras evolutum2 sites
- Durangites heilprini2 sites
- Haploceras2 sites
- Hegaratella oxycostata2 sites
- Lemencia2 sites
- Lytohoplites2 sites
- Moravisphinctes fischeri2 sites
- Paraulacosphinctes senoides2 sites
- Pseudolissoceras2 sites
- Simoceras2 sites
- Aequipecten1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Anditrigonia1 site
- Ardesciella rhodanica1 site
- Aspidoceras1 site
- Aspidoceras acanthicum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Micracanthoceras, 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
16 references- Upper Tithonian ammonites (Himalayitidae Spath, 1925 and Neocomitidae Salfeld, 1921) from Charens (Drôme, France)14
- Upper Tithonian Ammonites and Floras from the Chicama Basin, Northern Peruvian Andes9
- The Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary (Tithonian - Hauterivian) in the Andean Basin of Central Chile: Ammonites, Bio- and Sequence Stratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography8
- New and poorly known Perisphinctoidea (Ammonitina) from the Upper Tithonian of Le Chouet (Drôme, SE France)4
- Tithonian–Berriasian ammonites from the Baños del Flaco Formation, central Chile3
- Les formations du Jurassique supérieur du Bou Rheddou au Nord de Tiaret (Bordure sud-tellienne, Algérie): âge et milieux de dépôt2
- La serie Jurasica de la unidad Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas (Zona Subbetica) [The Jurassic series of the Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas Unit (Subbetic Zone)]2
- The Tithonian (Jurassic) ammonite fauna of Sierra Catorce, San Luis Potosi, Mexico2
- Tithonian-early Berriasian perisphinctoid ammonites from the Štramberk Limestone at Kotouč Quarry near Štramberk, Outer Western Carpathians (Czech Republic)1
- Upper Jurassic Reefs from the Russian Western Caucasus: Implications for the Eastern Black Sea1
- Status of "Trigonia ventricosa" (Bivalvia) from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Kutch, western India: Kitchin's unfinished synthesis1
- The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen1
Each of the 52 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. 4 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 content0
No picture of Micracanthoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Micracanthoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Micracanthoceras 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 itHimalayitinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.