Paracenoceras giganteum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacenocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Paracenoceras giganteum on record, most of them in the Late 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
7 occurrencesThese 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 Paracenoceras giganteum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracenoceras giganteum and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Paracenoceras giganteum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Choffatia2 sites
- Holcophylloceras mediterraneum2 sites
- Pleurocephalites2 sites
- Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Arctostrea amor1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras)1 site
- Calliphylloceras disputabile1 site
- Ceratomya1 site
- Cidaris schlonbachi1 site
- Cryptorhynchia pulcherrima1 site
- Cryptorhynchia rugosa1 site
- Ctenostreon proboscideum1 site
- Eligmus rollandi1 site
- Entolium demissum1 site
- Eutrephoceras douvillei1 site
- Flabellothyris dichotoma1 site
- Gervillia1 site
- Holcophylloceras1 site
- Indocephalites1 site
- Indosphinctes urbanus1 site
- Kamptokephalites1 site
- Kutchirhynchia indica1 site
- Kutchithyris acutiplicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Paracenoceras giganteum, 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- The Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) nautiloid fauna of Kutch, western India2
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires2
- Die Nautilen des weissen Jura2
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez1
Each of the 7 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 Paracenoceras giganteum 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 Paracenoceras giganteum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracenoceras giganteum 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 itParacenoceras through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1843)