Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras)PBDB
- 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.
24 occurrences of Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme 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
24 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
3 formations
- Hilo Formation · Villeta Group19
- La Puya Formation1
- Catumbela Formation1
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The named rock units Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Goodhallites aguilerae15 sites
- Hysteroceras andinum11 sites
- Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) karsteni9 sites
- Mortoniceras equidistans7 sites
- Ostrea6 sites
- Oxytropidoceras5 sites
- Birostrina3 sites
- Elobiceras angustum3 sites
- Elobiceras flexicostatum3 sites
- Hamites3 sites
- Oxytropidoceras (Laraiceras) laraense3 sites
- Elobiceras2 sites
- Elobiceras intermedium2 sites
- Elobiceras raymondi2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum2 sites
- Neokentroceras subtuberculatum2 sites
- Prohysteroceras2 sites
- Prohysteroceras decipiens2 sites
- Prohysteroceras dubium2 sites
- Pycnodonte2 sites
- Stomohamites virgulatus2 sites
- Aconeceras1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Anisoceras armatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme, 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
4 references- Chronology, relative sea-level history and a new sequence stratigraphic model for basinal Cretaceous facies of Colombia19
- On Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Angola, collected by Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S3
- Renz, 19821
- The Vernay Collection of Cretaceous (Albian) ammonites from Angola1
Each of the 24 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme 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 Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme 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 itMortoniceras (Mortoniceras) through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1922)