Acutimitoceras

Acutimitoceras is a genus belonging to the Acutimitoceratinae subfamily of the Prionoceratidae family, a member of the Goniatitida order. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GattendorfiidaePBDB
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 most 49 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 31 of 96 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 65 of 96 occurrencesCarboniferous373–371 Mya — about 1 occurrence371–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 3 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 3 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 4 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 5 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 5 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 5 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 11 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 15 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 15 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 10 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 4 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 4 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 4 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences373 Mya322 Mya

96 occurrences of Acutimitoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

96 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

9 formations

Pal Grande — 47.00°N, 13.00°EHangenberg Kalk — 51.40°N, 7.83°EWocklum — 51.33°N, 7.87°EWangyou — 25.77°N, 106.38°EHannibal Shale — 39.58°N, 91.31°WHannibal Shale — 37.81°N, 89.86°WKronhof Limestone — 47.00°N, 13.00°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EHeishantou — 46.75°N, 86.23°EStourscombe — 50.63°N, 4.49°W

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The named rock units Acutimitoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acutimitoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Acutimitoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Acutimitoceras, 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

12 references

Each of the 96 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 Acutimitoceras 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 Acutimitoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acutimitoceras 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

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 itGattendorfiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Librovitch 1957