Peltoceras

Peltoceras is an extinct ammonite genus from the aspidoceratid subfamily Peltoceratinae that lived during the later part of the Middle Jurassic.

Peltoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeltoceratinaePBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 72 of 103 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 31 of 103 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 8 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 9 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 9 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 9 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 9 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 9 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 9 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 9 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 3 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 3 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya157.9 Mya165.8 Mya151.7 Mya

103 occurrences of Peltoceras on record. 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

103 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

11 formations

Tuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 21.62°N, 45.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.57°N, 45.00°ELotena — 37.23°S, 70.37°WLotena — 39.00°S, 70.00°WLotena — 37.00°S, 70.50°WLotena — 38.62°S, 70.17°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EStaffin Shale — 57.65°N, 6.24°W"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ECapas con Reineckeia — 17.54°N, 97.88°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ELogtown Ridge — 38.51°N, 120.86°WFernie — 51.62°N, 115.43°WAntalo — 14.44°N, 40.85°EOgrodzieniec Glauconitic Marl — 50.46°N, 19.52°E

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The named rock units Peltoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Peltoceras, 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

21 references

Each of the 103 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. 9 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 Peltoceras

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
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 itPeltoceratinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.