Retrotornoceras alobatum
No picture of Retrotornoceras alobatum 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 Retrotornoceras alobatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetrotornocerasPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 Mya and 372.15 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Retrotornoceras alobatum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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.
Retrotornoceras alobatum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Retrotornoceras alobatum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Archoceras angulatum1 site
- Archoceras ussheri1 site
- Archoceras varicosum1 site
- Aulatornoceras auris1 site
- Aulatornoceras bickense1 site
- Aulatornoceras paucistriatum1 site
- Aulatornoceras tumidum1 site
- Clauseniceras1 site
- Crassotornoceras annissi1 site
- Crickites holzapfeli1 site
- Delphiceras unduloconstrictum1 site
- Linguatornoceras1 site
- Manticoceras adorfense1 site
- Manticoceras lamed1 site
- Serramanticoceras serratum1 site
- Tornoceras holwilli1 site
- Tornoceras typum1 site
- Trimanticoceras retrorsum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Retrotornoceras alobatum, 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
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
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No picture of Retrotornoceras alobatum 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 Retrotornoceras alobatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retrotornoceras alobatum 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 itRetrotornoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. House 2002