Mooreoceras giganteum
No picture of Mooreoceras giganteum 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 Mooreoceras giganteum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudorthocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
5 occurrences of Mooreoceras giganteum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mooreoceras giganteum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mooreoceras giganteum and its relatives
PermianWhere Mooreoceras giganteum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Bamyaniceras knighti2 sites
- Bellerophon (Bellerophon) majusculus2 sites
- Cibecuia gouldii2 sites
- Coelogasteroceras mexicanum2 sites
- Domatoceras2 sites
- Edmondia rotunda2 sites
- Eumedlicottia whitneyi2 sites
- Fistulipora2 sites
- Heteropecten vanvleeti2 sites
- Leptodesma gouldii2 sites
- Lyroschizodus oklahomensis2 sites
- Medlicottia2 sites
- Metacoceras inconspicuum2 sites
- Nuculavus levatiformis2 sites
- Permophorus albequus2 sites
- Permophorus mexicanus2 sites
- Perrinites hilli2 sites
- Prodentalium canna2 sites
- Pseudogastrioceras texanum2 sites
- Pseudomonotis hawni2 sites
- Pseudomonotis sublaevis2 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense2 sites
- Schizodus texanus2 sites
- Septimyalina burmai2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mooreoceras giganteum, 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
2 references- American Permian nautiloids3
- Invertebrate Faunas from The Blaine and The Dog Creek Formations of the Permain Leonard Series2
Each of the 5 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 Mooreoceras giganteum 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 Mooreoceras giganteum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mooreoceras giganteum 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 itPseudorthoceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clifton 1942