Nostoceras rotundum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NostocerasPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Nostoceras rotundum 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
4 occurrences- Late 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
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The named rock units Nostoceras rotundum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nostoceras rotundum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nostoceras rotundum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Libycoceras dandense2 sites
- Axonoceras angolanum1 site
- Baculites1 site
- Cirroceras conradi1 site
- Didymoceras hornbyense1 site
- Neophylloceras ultimum1 site
- Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum1 site
- Nostoceras hyatti1 site
- Nostoceras kernense1 site
- Nostoceras mariatheresianum1 site
- Polyptychoceras pseudogaultinum1 site
- Solenoceras1 site
- Solenoceras bembense1 site
- Sphenodiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nostoceras rotundum, 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
3 references- Cretaceous ammonites and nautiloids from Angola2
- Some Upper Cretaceous ammonites from southern Nigeria1
- Some abnormally coiled ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of Angola1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Nostoceras rotundum 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 Nostoceras rotundum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nostoceras rotundum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNostoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howarth 1965