Spiticeras multiforme
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiticerasPBDB
- 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 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Spiticeras multiforme on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
21 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Spiticeras multiforme 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.
Spiticeras multiforme and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Spiticeras multiforme and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Fauriella boissieri13 sites
- Neolissoceras grasianum11 sites
- Tirnovella alpillensis10 sites
- Berriasella calisto9 sites
- Calcicalathina9 sites
- Rucinolithus wisei9 sites
- Calpionellopsis8 sites
- Percivalia fenestrata8 sites
- Remaniella8 sites
- Tintinnopsella8 sites
- Kilianiceras7 sites
- Percivalia7 sites
- Lorenziella6 sites
- Calpionella alpina5 sites
- Leptoceras studeri4 sites
- Tubodiscus jurapelagicus4 sites
- Tubodiscus verenae4 sites
- Groebericeras3 sites
- Protancyloceras3 sites
- Speetonia colligata3 sites
- Sturiella3 sites
- Subalpinites3 sites
- Bochianites2 sites
- Kilianella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Spiticeras multiforme, 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
3 references- The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain15
- Los ammonites del transito Berriasense-Valanginiense en la region de Cehegin (Prov. de Murcia, SE de España)5
- Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea1
Each of the 21 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 content0
No picture of Spiticeras multiforme 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 Spiticeras multiforme, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiticeras multiforme 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 itSpiticeras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Djanelidze 1922