Popanoceras
Searched as Popanoceras sobolewskyanum transalayensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Popanoceras as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PopanoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Popanoceras on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Popanoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Popanoceras and its relatives
PermianWhere Popanoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
354 taxa- Thalassoceras gemmellaroi15 sites
- Agathiceras mediterraneum14 sites
- Artinskia artiensis14 sites
- Medlicottia orbignyana14 sites
- Daraelites elegans13 sites
- Pamiropopanoceras meridionale12 sites
- Uraloceras fedorowi12 sites
- Parapronorites rectus11 sites
- Uraloceras involutum11 sites
- Crimites subkrotowi10 sites
- Kargalites typicus10 sites
- Metalegoceras toumanskayae9 sites
- Paragastrioceras kirghizorum9 sites
- Waagenina subinterrupta9 sites
- Eothinites solitus8 sites
- Neopronorites permicus8 sites
- Neopronorites skvorzovi8 sites
- Agathiceras uralicum7 sites
- Daraelites pamiricus7 sites
- Eothinites convexus7 sites
- Metalegoceras shyndense7 sites
- Paragastrioceras7 sites
- Uraloceras complanatum7 sites
- Eothinites kargalensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Popanoceras, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Popanoceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Popanoceras 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 itPopanoceratidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884