Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum
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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.
3 occurrences of Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum 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
3 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
- Nwofe Sandstone Formation1
- Antelope Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Anagaudryceras1 site
- Gyaloceras ibo1 site
- Idiohamites1 site
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum amekaense1 site
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) pachys1 site
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) quadrinodosum1 site
- Prohysteroceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons2
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III1
Each of the 3 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
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Mortoniceras sp. · KU:KUMIP:148338
No picture of Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum 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) nodosocostatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itMortoniceras (Mortoniceras) through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (van Hoepen 1942)