Aphelaeceras

Aphelaeceras is an extinct genus from the nautilid family Trigonoceratidae which is part of the Trigonocerataceae, that lived during the Mississippian Period in the late Paleozoic.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SubclymeniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences356–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 3 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences339.9 Mya254.14 Mya356 Mya250 Mya

9 occurrences of Aphelaeceras 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

9 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

5 formations

Imo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.81°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.66°N, 91.61°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WCameron Creek — 46.58°N, 110.83°WNakadaira — 39.03°N, 141.51°EChangxing — 26.71°N, 105.27°E

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The named rock units Aphelaeceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aphelaeceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aphelaeceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Aphelaeceras, 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 9 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 Aphelaeceras 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 Aphelaeceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aphelaeceras 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 itSubclymeniidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884