Rhabdoceras

Rhabdoceras

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChoristoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 177 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 30 of 32 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 20 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence215.38 Mya37.71 Mya231 Mya30 Mya

32 occurrences of Rhabdoceras on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

32 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

Pardonet — 56.03°N, 123.08°WPardonet — 56.47°N, 123.68°WPardonet — 55.79°N, 122.94°WIgrimyuz — 38.28°N, 73.85°EIgrimyuz — 37.72°N, 74.54°EParson Bay — 50.12°N, 127.47°WParson Bay — 49.86°N, 127.07°WParson Bay — 50.03°N, 127.38°WSutton — 48.85°N, 124.23°WGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WDachstein Limestone — 47.54°N, 19.01°EAntimonio — 30.72°N, 112.55°WFernie — 56.03°N, 123.05°WSaldana — 4.27°N, 75.10°WPayandé — 4.30°N, 75.10°WBrock Shale — 40.05°N, 120.72°W

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The named rock units Rhabdoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdoceras and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rhabdoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,295 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Rhabdoceras, 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

14 references

Each of the 32 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Rhabdoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhabdoceras 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itChoristoceratidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hauer 1860