Phymatoceras

Phymatoceras

Roby Weis · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymatoceratidaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 422 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 418 of 422 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 422 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 422 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 18 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 87 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 81 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 59 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 59 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 59 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 52 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182.9 Mya170.9 Mya202.2 Mya160.7 Mya

422 occurrences of Phymatoceras on record, most of them in the Early 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

422 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

17 formations

Whiteaves — 53.42°N, 132.27°WWhiteaves — 53.20°N, 132.05°WWhiteaves — 52.96°N, 131.61°WWhiteaves — 53.19°N, 132.02°WWhiteaves — 53.49°N, 132.33°WLautaro — 29.01°S, 70.20°WLautaro — 29.21°S, 70.28°WLautaro — 29.36°S, 70.19°WLautaro — 29.43°S, 70.13°WLautaro — 28.20°S, 70.00°WLautaro — 28.14°S, 69.96°WLautaro — 28.20°S, 69.94°WLautaro — 28.02°S, 69.72°WLautaro — 27.70°S, 69.61°WLautaro — 27.90°S, 69.98°WLautaro — 28.57°S, 70.10°WSpatsizi — 57.49°N, 128.87°WSpatsizi — 57.56°N, 128.90°WBugarone — 43.33°N, 13.22°ESubbetic Basin — 37.59°N, 3.21°WSubbetic Basin — 38.13°N, 1.47°WKisgerecse — 47.70°N, 18.43°EKisgerecse — 47.66°N, 18.47°EKisgerecse Marl — 47.70°N, 18.49°EMarnes de Fontaneilles — 43.85°N, 3.12°ESmithers — 56.21°N, 126.35°WLast Creek — 51.11°N, 123.03°WOzirovo — 43.08°N, 23.23°EOzirovo — 43.22°N, 23.39°EFernie — 49.92°N, 114.87°WTakwahoni — 58.65°N, 133.08°WCastillo Pedros — 42.89°N, 3.98°WHarrison Lake — 49.34°N, 121.83°WSierra Fraga — 26.99°S, 69.59°WMontandón — 25.94°S, 69.19°W

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The named rock units Phymatoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 165 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phymatoceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Phymatoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 310 sites for Phymatoceras, and this reads 240 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

33 references

Each of the 422 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. 21 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 content1

Picture of Phymatoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Roby Weis
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.