Mortoniceras (Angolaites)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MortonicerasPBDB
- 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 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Mortoniceras (Angolaites) on record, most of them in the Early 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
16 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
- Weno Formation · Washita Group6
- Catumbela Formation1
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The named rock units Mortoniceras (Angolaites) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mortoniceras (Angolaites) and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mortoniceras (Angolaites) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Anisoceras perarmatum5 sites
- Anisoceras armatum3 sites
- Engonoceras serpentinum3 sites
- Hamites3 sites
- Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum3 sites
- Stomohamites virgulatus3 sites
- Elobiceras subelobiense2 sites
- Hamites duplicatus2 sites
- Hysteroceras choffati2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum2 sites
- Prohysteroceras wordiei2 sites
- Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) argonautiformis2 sites
- Aconeceras1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Anisoceras arrogans1 site
- Anisoceras exoticum1 site
- Anisoceras haasi1 site
- Anisoceras phillipsi1 site
- Anisoceras spathi1 site
- Anisoceras subarcuatum1 site
- Anisoceras subundulatum1 site
- Beudanticeras beudanti1 site
- Cantabrigites subsimplex1 site
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum perinflatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Mortoniceras (Angolaites), 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
6 references- Ammonites from the Weno Limestone (Albian) in Northeast Texas6
- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons3
- Uppermost Albian (Stoliczkaia dispar zone) ammonites from the Angolan littoral2
- The Vernay Collection of Cretaceous (Albian) ammonites from Angola2
- On Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Angola, collected by Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S2
- Choffat, 19051
Each of the 16 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
- IGC_UFMG_Paleontology
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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What may have been alongside itMortoniceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1932)