Allocrioceras
Searched as Allocrioceras hazzardi. The Paleobiology Database treats Allocrioceras as the accepted name.
Allocrioceras is an ammonoid cephalopod from the Turonian to Santonian stages of the Late Cretaceous, included in the turrilitoid family Anisoceratidae. Its shell is strongly ribbed and is in the form of a widely open spiral.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnisoceratidaePBDB
- 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 4.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 85.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Allocrioceras 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
1 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
1 formation
- Atco Formation · Austin Group1
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The named rock units Allocrioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allocrioceras and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Allocrioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Sciponoceras bohemicum11 sites
- Nostoceras (Eubostrychoceras) saxonicum8 sites
- Pycnodonte8 sites
- Scaphites geinitzii8 sites
- Hyphantoceras (Hyphantoceras) reussianum7 sites
- Sciponoceras gracile7 sites
- Inoceramus6 sites
- Lewesiceras mantelli6 sites
- Exogyra5 sites
- Metoicoceras geslinianum5 sites
- Subprionocyclus neptuni5 sites
- Terebratulida5 sites
- Worthoceras vermiculum5 sites
- Corbula4 sites
- Inoceramidae4 sites
- Inoceramus striatoconcentricus carpathicus4 sites
- Lucina4 sites
- Ostreidae4 sites
- Subprionocyclus branneri4 sites
- Turritella4 sites
- Euomphaloceras3 sites
- Euomphaloceras septemseriatum3 sites
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus3 sites
- Inoceramus costellatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Allocrioceras, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Allocrioceras
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kevmin
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Allocrioceras 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 itAnisoceratidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1926