Rotopericyclus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RotopericyclinaePBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Rotopericyclus 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
16 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
- Argiles de Teguentour Formation12
- Milldale Limestone Formation1
- Middle Canyon Formation1
- Hodder Mudstone Formation1
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The named rock units Rotopericyclus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rotopericyclus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Rotopericyclus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Dzhaprakoceras2 sites
- Eurites doliaris2 sites
- Eurites permutus2 sites
- Kusinia falcifera2 sites
- Muensteroceras multitudum2 sites
- Ammonellipsites clitheroensis1 site
- Beyrichoceratoides inflatus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachymetopus maccoyi1 site
- Cyrtoproetus1 site
- Dzhaprakoceras deflexum1 site
- Dzhaprakoceras flexum1 site
- Dzhaprakoceras paracatena1 site
- Merocanites quadrilobus1 site
- Namuropyge1 site
- Nodopericyclus circumnodosus1 site
- Ouaoufilalites creber1 site
- Phillibolina1 site
- Proliobole nitida1 site
- Reediella1 site
- Serpenticyclus formosus1 site
- Serpenticyclus inornatus1 site
- Serpenticyclus laxaris1 site
- Triimitoceras tantulum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Rotopericyclus, 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
4 references- The ammonoids from the Argiles de Teguentour of Oued Temertasset (early Late Tournaisian; Mouydir, Algeria)12
- Late Kinderhookian (Early Mississippian) ammonoids of the western United States2
- Mid-Dinantian ammonoids from the Craven Basin, northwest England1
- New data on Carboniferous (Dinantian) trilobites from the Peak District, Derbyshire, England1
Each of the 16 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
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No picture of Rotopericyclus 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 Rotopericyclus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rotopericyclus 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 itRotopericyclinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Turner 1948)