Paraspidoceras

No picture of Paraspidoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Paraspidoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuaspidoceratinaePBDB
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 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 159 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–158 Mya — about 3 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159 Mya132.6 Mya162.3 Mya120.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Paraspidoceras 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

9 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

3 formations

Couches à Spérites — 47.98°N, 4.85°EL'Ammonitico Rosso Inférieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WPálihálás Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.51°E

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The named rock units Paraspidoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paraspidoceras and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Paraspidoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Paraspidoceras, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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 Paraspidoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Paraspidoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paraspidoceras 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 itEuaspidoceratinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.