Protogrammoceras
Searched as Protogrammoceras celebraum. The Paleobiology Database treats Protogrammoceras as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtogrammoceratinaePBDB
- 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 8.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protogrammoceras 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
1 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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 Protogrammoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protogrammoceras and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Protogrammoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
351 taxa- Lytoceras31 sites
- Lytoceras fimbriatum25 sites
- Amaltheus stokesi23 sites
- Ammonoidea22 sites
- Phylloceras hebertinum22 sites
- Tiltoniceras propinquum22 sites
- Calliphylloceras bicicolae21 sites
- Phylloceratoidea21 sites
- Fuciniceras (Matteiceras) geometricum20 sites
- Fuciniceras19 sites
- Juraphyllites18 sites
- Harpoceratinae17 sites
- Partschiceras striatocostatum16 sites
- Zetoceras zetes15 sites
- Liparoceras (Becheiceras) gallicum14 sites
- Ammonitina13 sites
- Juraphyllites libertus13 sites
- Juraphyllites (Harpophylloceras) eximius12 sites
- Fanninoceras (Fanninoceras) carlottense11 sites
- Harpoceras11 sites
- Dactylioceras10 sites
- Fuciniceras (Paltarpites) aequiondulatum10 sites
- Hantkeniceras hantkeni10 sites
- Arieticeras9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 218 sites for Protogrammoceras, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Protogrammoceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProtogrammoceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1913