Branneroceras

Branneroceras is a goniatitid genus from the Late Carboniferous. Their fossils have been found in Nunavut, Canada, and in Arkansas and Texas, USA.

Branneroceras

Dlyj0604 · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SchistoceratidaePBDB
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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 45 of 45 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 3 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 3 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 6 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 6 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 6 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–316 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318.6 Mya315.2 Mya323.9 Mya306.5 Mya

45 occurrences of Branneroceras 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

45 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

8 formations

Otto Fiord — 80.91°N, 84.25°WOtto Fiord — 76.63°N, 109.03°WOtto Fiord — 76.65°N, 109.05°WOtto Fiord — 78.18°N, 101.25°WOtto Fiord — 78.54°N, 97.44°WOtto Fiord — 81.06°N, 85.54°WWitts Springs — 36.15°N, 93.00°WWitts Springs — 36.23°N, 93.31°WWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WWitts Springs — 35.83°N, 93.13°WBloyd Shale — 35.77°N, 94.38°WBloyd Shale — 35.89°N, 94.17°WHale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WHale — 36.07°N, 94.15°WHale — 36.17°N, 93.23°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°EJohns Valley — 34.77°N, 94.01°WSmithwick — 31.09°N, 98.53°WUnion Valley — 34.69°N, 96.54°W

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

Branneroceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Branneroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Branneroceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 45 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 Branneroceras

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CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Branneroceras 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSchistoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Plummer and Scott 1937)