Bisatoceras
Bisatoceras is a late Paleozoic Ammonoidea, a member of the goniatitid family Bisatoceratidae.
No picture of Bisatoceras 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 Bisatoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BisatoceratidaePBDB
- 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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.7 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.
34 occurrences of Bisatoceras 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
34 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
17 formations
- Hare Fiord Formation8
- Cherokee Formation4
- Otto Fiord Formation4
- Hale Formation · Morrow Group2
- Witts Springs Formation2
- Four Corners Formation2
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The named rock units Bisatoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bisatoceras and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Bisatoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
270 taxa- Pseudorthoceras knoxense7 sites
- Metapronorites ellesmerensis6 sites
- Phaneroceras lenticulare6 sites
- Syngastrioceras oblatum6 sites
- Clistoceras globosum5 sites
- Pseudopronorites arkansiensis5 sites
- Branneroceras branneri4 sites
- Syngastrioceras4 sites
- Syngastrioceras constrictum4 sites
- Bactrites3 sites
- Christioceras trifurcatum3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Crurithyris3 sites
- Diaboloceras involutum3 sites
- Dimorphoceras politum3 sites
- Eoasianites smithwickensis3 sites
- Gastrioceras glenisteri3 sites
- Glaphyrites3 sites
- Glaphyrites welleri3 sites
- Maximites oklahomensis3 sites
- Astartella2 sites
- Bilinguites canadensis2 sites
- Boesites2 sites
- Branneroceras2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Bisatoceras, 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
13 references- Carboniferous ammonoids and stratigraphy in the Canadian Arctic archipelago14
- An ammonoid fauna from the lower Pennsylvanian Cherokee Formation of Missouri4
- Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas3
- Pennsylvanian (Atokan) ammonoids from the Magoffin Member of the Four Corners Formation, eastern Kentucky2
- New occurrences of the Pennsylvanian index ammonoid Dunbarites from the North American Midcontinent2
- Paleoecology and taphonomy of faunal assemblages in gray "core" (offshore) shales in Midcontinent Pennsylvanian cyclothems2
- Late Bashkirian ammonoids from the Mospyne Formation of the Donets Basin, Ukraine1
- Facies and fauna of the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry deposit: a review and new data on an important Palaeozoic fossil Lagerstätte with aragonite preservation1
- Late Bashkirian Amminoids and Nautiloids from Western Verkhoyansk Region1
- The youngest carpoid: occurrence, affinities, and life mode of a Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) mitrate from Oklahoma1
- Some Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rostroconchs from the midcontinent region1
- Cephalopods from the Carboniferous Morrow Group of Northern Arkansas and Oklahoma1
Each of the 34 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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
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No picture of Bisatoceras 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 Bisatoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bisatoceras 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bisatoceras”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBisatoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Owen 1937