Pleurolytoceras hircinum
No picture of Pleurolytoceras hircinum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Pleurolytoceras hircinum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleurolytocerasPBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Pleurolytoceras hircinum 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pleurolytoceras hircinum 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.
Pleurolytoceras hircinum and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Pleurolytoceras hircinum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Pleydellia costulata14 sites
- Cenoceras intermedium13 sites
- Cotteswoldia fluitans13 sites
- Dumortieria13 sites
- Cotteswoldia aalensis12 sites
- Hudlestonia serrodens11 sites
- Pleydellia11 sites
- Cotteswoldia distans9 sites
- Cotteswoldia subcompta9 sites
- Pleydellia leura9 sites
- Cotteswoldia mactra8 sites
- Pleurolytoceras wrighti8 sites
- Phlyseogrammoceras dispansiforme7 sites
- Dumortieria moorei4 sites
- Phylloceras supraliasicum4 sites
- Dumortieria kochi3 sites
- Dumortieria rustica3 sites
- Hudlestonia affinis2 sites
- Pleurolytoceras dilucidum2 sites
- Pleurolytoceras torulosum2 sites
- Dumortieria costula1 site
- Pleydellia subcompta1 site
- Pseudolioceras compactile1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pleurolytoceras hircinum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Die Ammonitenfauna und Stratigraphie der Tongrube Mistelgau bei Bayreuth (Oberfranken)16
- Lytoceratid ammonites from the Inferior Oolite Formation (Middle Jurassic, Aalenian and Bajocian) of Dorset (United Kingdom)1
- The Aalenian at the Type Locality1
Each of the 18 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Pleurolytoceras hircinum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Pleurolytoceras hircinum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPleurolytoceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1820)