Parametacoceras

Parametacoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GzheloceratidaePBDB
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 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 308.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 8 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence308.9 Mya254.14 Mya316 Mya251 Mya

8 occurrences of Parametacoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

4 formations

Changxing — 31.00°N, 119.75°EChangxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°ECabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WKamenskaya — 48.42°N, 39.21°E

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The named rock units Parametacoceras 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.

Parametacoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Parametacoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Parametacoceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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

Picture of Parametacoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parametacoceras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itGzheloceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Owen 1934