Anthracoceratites

Anthracoceratites is an extinct genus of the Dimorphoceratidae family. They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.

No picture of Anthracoceratites 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 Anthracoceratites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlyphiolobinaePBDB
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 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 315.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323.9 Mya314.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Anthracoceratites 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

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

Gastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.65°N, 2.65°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.58°N, 2.43°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.70°N, 2.30°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.72°N, 2.08°WJingyuan — 37.20°N, 105.37°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°E

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The named rock units Anthracoceratites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthracoceratites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Anthracoceratites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Anthracoceratites, 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

4 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 content0

No picture of Anthracoceratites 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 Anthracoceratites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Anthracoceratites 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.

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 itGlyphiolobinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ramsbottom 1970