Acrocoelites rostriformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrocoelitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 180.4 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Acrocoelites rostriformis 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- Marnes de Fontaneilles Formation3
- Braunjura alpha & Braunjura beta Formation · Braunjura Group1
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The named rock units Acrocoelites rostriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acrocoelites rostriformis and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Acrocoelites rostriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Acrocoelites pyramidalis3 sites
- Rhabdobelus donovani3 sites
- Alocolytoceras trautscholdi2 sites
- Calliphylloceras2 sites
- Dactyloteuthis irregularis2 sites
- Dumortieria2 sites
- Grammoceras2 sites
- Hammatoceras2 sites
- Osperleioceras2 sites
- Acrocoelites brevisulcatus1 site
- Acrocoelites inaequistriatus1 site
- Alocolytoceras1 site
- Alocolytoceras coarctatum1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Bositra buchi1 site
- Callocardiinae1 site
- Cenoceras lineatum1 site
- Chemnitzia1 site
- Chlamys textoria1 site
- Coelodiscus minutus1 site
- Corbulomima obscura1 site
- Costatrochus subduplicatus1 site
- Cotteswoldia distans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acrocoelites rostriformis, 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
2 references- Belemnites from the Upper Pliensbachian and the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Tournadous (Causses, France)3
- Die Gundershoffener Klamm1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Acrocoelites rostriformis 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 Acrocoelites rostriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrocoelites rostriformis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAcrocoelites through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Theodori 1837)