Titanoceras

Titanoceras is an extinct genus in the nautiloid order Nautilida from the Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian of North America and Western Australia.

Titanoceras

Lazyman9191 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
DomatoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPermian305–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–301 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence294–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya259.857 Mya305 Mya253 Mya

10 occurrences of Titanoceras on record. 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

10 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

3 formations

Graham — 33.19°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WJungle Creek — 65.89°N, 136.21°WJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.51°E

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The named rock units Titanoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Titanoceras, 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

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Titanoceras

Credit
Lazyman9191
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDomatoceratidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884