Nannolytoceras polyhelictum

No picture of Nannolytoceras polyhelictum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nannolytoceras polyhelictum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NannolytocerasPBDB
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 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 168.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence170.9 Mya168.6 Mya175.2 Mya167.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Nannolytoceras polyhelictum on record, most of them in the Middle 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

5 occurrences

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

1 formation

Kambe — 4.02°S, 39.55°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Nannolytoceras polyhelictum 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.

Nannolytoceras polyhelictum and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nannolytoceras polyhelictum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nannolytoceras polyhelictum, 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

3 references

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 Nannolytoceras polyhelictum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nannolytoceras polyhelictum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNannolytoceras through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Böckh 1881)