Nostoceras

Nostoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos), meaning "return", and κέρας (céras), meaning "horn", named as such by Alpheus Hyatt because the species' shell bends back on itself.

Nostoceras

Mr Fink ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NostoceratidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 204 of 204 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 204 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 10 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 13 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 13 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 13 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 13 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 13 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 13 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 13 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 13 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 13 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 13 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 13 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 7 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

204 occurrences of Nostoceras on record, most of them in the Late 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

204 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

34 formations

Saratoga Chalk — 33.77°N, 93.68°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.75°N, 93.90°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.72°N, 93.67°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.87°N, 93.58°WSaratoga Chalk — 33.70°N, 93.96°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.61°N, 95.05°WNacatoch Sand — 31.31°N, 96.90°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WPierre Shale — 40.28°N, 105.14°WPierre Shale — 40.76°N, 105.05°WPierre Shale — 40.90°N, 105.06°WPierre Shale — 40.51°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 38.45°N, 105.15°WShinarish — 36.37°N, 41.68°ENavesink — 40.41°N, 74.03°WNavesink — 40.33°N, 74.16°WNeylandville Marl — 33.37°N, 95.69°WNeylandville Marl — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WAnnona — 33.77°N, 93.92°WAnnona — 33.83°N, 93.81°WAnnona — 33.80°N, 94.06°WTeba — 9.25°S, 14.10°ETeba — 13.00°S, 14.00°EKita-ama — 34.32°N, 134.89°EDaralitau — 37.80°N, 68.57°EDaralitau — 38.01°N, 69.09°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°EQahlah — 24.30°N, 55.86°EMoreno — 36.22°N, 120.12°WMoreno — 36.03°N, 120.14°WMoreno — 37.23°N, 121.13°WKorojon Calcarenite — 22.68°S, 114.35°EMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNkporo Shale — 5.20°N, 8.22°ENkporo Shale — 5.93°N, 7.42°ESaint-Symphorien — 50.43°N, 4.00°EPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WVila Vella — 42.17°N, 0.90°ECesarea Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.41°EMaastricht — 50.88°N, 5.75°ECraie de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.93°EOzan — 33.77°N, 93.92°WSt Lucia — 28.45°S, 32.32°E

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The named rock units Nostoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nostoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nostoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

606 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Nostoceras, 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

40 references

Each of the 204 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Nostoceras

Credit
Mr Fink ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itNostoceratidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1894