Saxoceras

Saxoceras is a genus of very evolute schlotheimiid ammonoids from the Lower Jurassic.

Saxoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchlotheimiidaePBDB
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 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic201–201 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201.9 Mya199 Mya

18 occurrences of Saxoceras 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

18 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

4 formations

Kamishak — 57.73°N, 155.39°WSandilands — 53.91°N, 133.15°WSunrise — 38.49°N, 118.10°WBouraké B — 22.07°S, 166.15°E

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The named rock units Saxoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saxoceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Saxoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Saxoceras, 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 18 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 Saxoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saxoceras 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itSchlotheimiidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lange 1924