Xipheroceras

Xipheroceras is a Lower Jurassic ammonite belonging to the Eoderoceratidae, and sometimes placed in the subfamily Xipheroceratinae for which it is the namesake. It has been found in the upper Sinemurian of Europe and possibly Borneo.

Xipheroceras

Daderot · CC0 · 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
EoderoceratinaePBDB
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 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesEarly Jurassic200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200 Mya192.4 Mya

14 occurrences of Xipheroceras 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

14 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

Lower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.91°WCalcaires à Gryphées — 47.06°N, 4.74°E

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The named rock units Xipheroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xipheroceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Xipheroceras, 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 14 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 content2

Picture of Xipheroceras

Credit
Daderot
Licence
CC0
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 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 itEoderoceratinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buckman 1911