Planetoceras

Planetoceras

W Gilbertson · 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
PlanetoceratidaePBDB
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 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesPermian356–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339.9 Mya259.857 Mya356 Mya252 Mya

9 occurrences of Planetoceras 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

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

5 formations

Argiles de Timimoun Inférieur — 29.23°N, 0.09°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WWargal — 32.63°N, 71.75°EChhidru — 32.42°N, 72.12°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°E

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The named rock units Planetoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Planetoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Planetoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Planetoceras, 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 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 content1

Picture of Planetoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
W Gilbertson
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Planetoceras 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 itPlanetoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1893