Waagenoceras

Waagenoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods first recorded in the early Permian Period. It has been described as a 'fast-moving nektonic carnivore' by the Paleobiology Database.

Waagenoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclolobinaePBDB
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 least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 72 of 72 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 2 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 5 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 8 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 8 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 8 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 8 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 4 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266.9 Mya264.28 Mya274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

72 occurrences of Waagenoceras on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

72 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

25 formations

Word — 30.36°N, 103.28°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WPalo Quemado — 26.39°N, 102.93°WPalo Quemado — 26.32°N, 102.90°WPalo Quemado — 26.48°N, 102.90°WLas Delicias — 26.42°N, 102.87°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.24°WRoad Canyon — 30.37°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.15°WHorsefeed — 59.10°N, 132.95°WAntimonio — 30.77°N, 112.57°WDjebel Tebaga — 33.41°N, 10.18°ELa Difunta — 26.38°N, 102.93°WHamrat Duru — 23.41°N, 57.40°EShaiwa — 25.59°N, 106.15°ETae Wei — 9.77°S, 124.55°EMcGregor Creek — 50.67°N, 119.92°WLas Sardinas — 26.31°N, 102.91°WAl Jil — 23.09°N, 58.32°EQulqula — 35.95°N, 44.75°EOsakhta — 48.09°N, 132.50°EBell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.76°WHoso-o — 38.99°N, 141.52°EFanjiatun — 44.40°N, 126.97°ECapitan — 31.26°N, 104.46°WCherry Canyon — 31.78°N, 104.66°WBuday'ah — 23.74°N, 56.91°EJiushitan — 40.36°N, 98.90°EWenbishan — 25.10°N, 117.00°E

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The named rock units Waagenoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Waagenoceras and its relatives

Permian

Where Waagenoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

676 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Waagenoceras, 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

25 references

Each of the 72 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Waagenoceras

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No 3D scan of Waagenoceras 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gemmellaro 1887