Porpoceras

Porpoceras is genus of ammonite that lived during the early and middle Toarcian stage of early Jurassic. Members of this genus existed from uppermost part of the Harpoceras serpentinum zone to the Haugia variabilis zone. Their fossils were found in Europe, Asia, North America and South America.

No picture of Porpoceras 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 Porpoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DactylioceratinaePBDB
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 9.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 71 of 71 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 3 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 3 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 3 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 3 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 3 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 3 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 3 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 3 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 3 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 3 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 3 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 3 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 3 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 3 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

71 occurrences of Porpoceras 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

71 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

10 formations

Marnes de Fontaneilles — 43.85°N, 3.12°ESubbetic Basin — 37.59°N, 3.21°WSubbetic Basin — 38.13°N, 1.47°WKisgerecse — 47.70°N, 18.43°EAlum Shale — 54.40°N, 0.47°WCastillo Pedros — 42.89°N, 3.98°WBugarone — 43.33°N, 13.22°EOzirovo — 43.08°N, 23.23°EAgoudim — 31.95°N, 5.04°WAït Athmane — 32.07°N, 4.38°WAmergou — 34.50°N, 5.13°W

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The named rock units Porpoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Porpoceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Porpoceras, 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

17 references

Each of the 71 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Porpoceras 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 Porpoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Porpoceras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itDactylioceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.