Reticycloceras

Reticycloceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpyroceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 51 of 51 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–330 Mya — about 4 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 6 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 6 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 12 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 12 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 4 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339.9 Mya323.4 Mya347.5 Mya306.2 Mya

51 occurrences of Reticycloceras 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

51 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

11 formations

Imo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.81°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.76°N, 92.93°WFayetteville — 36.01°N, 93.97°WFayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.17°WFayetteville — 36.13°N, 94.09°WFayetteville — 36.10°N, 93.10°WFayetteville — 36.04°N, 92.76°WFayetteville — 35.75°N, 94.39°WFayetteville — 35.90°N, 92.62°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 91.90°WPitkin — 35.69°N, 91.73°WBatesville — 35.75°N, 91.78°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°EMojon de Hierro — 44.53°S, 70.02°WRuddell — 35.74°N, 91.57°WAlston — 54.80°N, 2.43°WMoorefield — 35.77°N, 91.63°W

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The named rock units Reticycloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Reticycloceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Reticycloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Reticycloceras, 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

6 references

Each of the 51 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 Reticycloceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itSpyroceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gordon 1960