Aspidoceras acanthicum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspidocerasPBDB
- 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 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Aspidoceras acanthicum on record, most of them in the Late 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Aspidoceras acanthicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aspidoceras acanthicum and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Aspidoceras acanthicum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Hybonoticeras4 sites
- Hybonoticeras hybonotus3 sites
- Taramelliceras compsum3 sites
- Torquatisphinctes3 sites
- Discosphinctoides2 sites
- Haploceras2 sites
- Nebrodites hospes2 sites
- Pachysphinctes major2 sites
- Physodoceras2 sites
- Streblites weinlandi2 sites
- Sutneria (Enosphinctes) eumela2 sites
- Ardesciella rhodanica1 site
- Aspidoceras (Physodoceras) circumspinosum1 site
- Aspidoceras rafaeli1 site
- Aulacosphinctes1 site
- Aulacosphinctoides1 site
- Aulacostephanus1 site
- Berriasella (Berriasella)1 site
- Berriasella (Berriasella) chomeracensis1 site
- Burckhardticeras peroni1 site
- Calliphylloceras manfredi1 site
- Corongoceras1 site
- Dalmasiceras1 site
- Danubisphinctes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Aspidoceras acanthicum, 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- Kimmeridgian-Lower Tithonian ammonite assemblages from Ghilcoş-Hăghimaş Massif (eastern Carpathians, Romania)3
- The Oppeliidae of the Acanthicum Zone (Upper Kimmeridgian) from Mount Crussol (Ardèche, France): ontogeny, variability and dimorphism of the genera Taramelliceras and Streblites (Ammonoidea)2
- Biostratigrafia ed ammoniti del Dogger-Malm di Colle Tordina (Monti della Rossa, Appennino marchigiano)1
- La serie Jurasica de la unidad Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas (Zona Subbetica) [The Jurassic series of the Casa Blanca-Puerto de las Palomas Unit (Subbetic Zone)]1
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires1
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (ammonites) - Fascicule V (Kimmerigien)1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aspidoceras acanthicum 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 Aspidoceras acanthicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aspidoceras acanthicum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAspidoceras through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppel 1863)