Vascoceras bulbosum
No picture of Vascoceras bulbosum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Vascoceras bulbosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VascocerasPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Vascoceras bulbosum on record, most of them in the Late 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
9 occurrences- Late 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 Vascoceras bulbosum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vascoceras bulbosum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Vascoceras bulbosum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Pseudotissotia nigeriensis5 sites
- Thomasites gongilensis5 sites
- Vascoceras globosum5 sites
- Thomasites wallsi4 sites
- Vascoceras proprium4 sites
- Costagyra olisiponensis3 sites
- Mecaster3 sites
- Vascoceras ellipticum3 sites
- Ampullospira bulbiformis2 sites
- Arctica globosa2 sites
- Astarte awensis2 sites
- Granocardium productum2 sites
- Micropedina olisiponensis2 sites
- Pholadomya pedernalis2 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) ferryi2 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras barberi2 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras paganum2 sites
- Vascoceras depressum2 sites
- Diplopodia1 site
- Eotissotia simplex1 site
- Fagesia involuta1 site
- Gervillaria olisiponensis1 site
- Harpagodes nodosus1 site
- Metengonoceras dumbli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Vascoceras bulbosum, 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- Lower Turonian ammonites from north-eastern Nigeria5
- The Geology of parts of Adamawa, Bauchi and Bornu Provinces in North-Eastern Nigeria2
- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons1
- Some new Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Nigeria1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Vascoceras bulbosum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Vascoceras bulbosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vascoceras bulbosum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVascoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reyment 1954)