Arnioceras arnouldi

Paul Antun · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArniocerasPBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
27 occurrences of Arnioceras arnouldi 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
27 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
10 formations
- Sunrise Formation10
- Inklin Formation · Laberge Group6
- Isztimér Formation2
- Sierra de Santa Rosa Formation · El Antimonio Group2
- Harbledown Formation1
- Talkeetna Formation1
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The named rock units Arnioceras arnouldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arnioceras arnouldi and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Arnioceras arnouldi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Angulaticeras3 sites
- Partschiceras tenuistriatum3 sites
- Agassiceras2 sites
- Agassiceras scipionianum2 sites
- Arietites2 sites
- Arnioceras ceratitoides2 sites
- Arnioceras rejectum2 sites
- Arnioceras semicostatum2 sites
- Arnioceras speciosum2 sites
- Asteroceras stellare2 sites
- Coroniceras2 sites
- Coroniceras (Paracoroniceras)2 sites
- Coroniceras kridion2 sites
- Euagassiceras2 sites
- Euagassiceras sauzeanum2 sites
- Euagassiceras spinaries2 sites
- Lytoceras2 sites
- Phylloceras2 sites
- Zetoceras oenotrium2 sites
- Ammonites collenotii1 site
- Angulaticeras boucaultianum1 site
- Angulaticeras coquandi1 site
- Angulaticeras etruscum1 site
- Angulaticeras lacunatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Arnioceras arnouldi, 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
11 references- Hettangian and Sinemurian ammonoid zonation for the western Cordillera of North America10
- Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie)3
- Early Jurassic evolution of the northern Stikinian arc: evidence from the Laberge Group, northwestern British Columbia3
- Provenance Constraints on Early Jurassic Evolution of the Northern Stikinian Arc: Laberge Group, Whitehorse Trough, Northwestern British Columbia3
- Ammonoid biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Lower Jurassic sections from Sonora (northwest Mexico) and their tectonic implications2
- Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne1
- A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar time scale for the Jurassic1
- Integrated ammonite biochronology and U-Pb geochronometry from a basal Jurassic section in Alaska1
- The Liassic Ammonite Faunas of the Stowell Park Borehole1
- On Lower Lias ammonites from Skye1
- Paléontologie Française - Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnés fossiles de France - Terrains jurassiques. [Céphalopodes]1
Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Arnioceras arnouldi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Paul Antun
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arnioceras arnouldi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itArnioceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dumortier 1867)