Cadoceras

Cadoceras is an extinct ammonite genus belonging to the Cardioceratidae that lived during the Jurassic period from the late Bajocian to the early Callovian.

A picture published with the record for Cadoceras.

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CadoceratinaePBDB
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 least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 217 of 222 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 222 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 222 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 5 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 50 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 50 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 50 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 50 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 14 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya154.8 Mya168.7 Mya142.6 Mya

222 occurrences of Cadoceras on record. 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

222 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

17 formations

Chinitna — 62.12°N, 147.70°WChinitna — 60.18°N, 152.60°WChinitna — 60.12°N, 152.60°WChinitna — 60.10°N, 152.72°WChinitna — 59.89°N, 153.07°WChinitna — 59.89°N, 153.03°WChinitna — 59.83°N, 153.03°WChinitna — 59.82°N, 153.06°WChinitna — 59.72°N, 153.22°WChinitna — 59.69°N, 153.27°WChinitna — 59.67°N, 153.39°WShelikof — 57.79°N, 155.55°WShelikof — 57.75°N, 155.47°WShelikof — 57.75°N, 155.44°WShelikof — 57.69°N, 155.60°WShelikof — 57.69°N, 155.73°WShelikof — 57.65°N, 155.70°WShelikof — 57.58°N, 156.02°WShelikof — 57.45°N, 156.22°WShelikof — 57.43°N, 156.37°WShelikof — 57.37°N, 156.49°WShelikof — 57.34°N, 156.61°WShelikof — 57.26°N, 156.66°WShelikof — 57.27°N, 156.53°WShelikof — 57.32°N, 156.36°WMysterious Creek — 49.48°N, 121.89°WMysterious Creek — 49.51°N, 121.96°WLogtown Ridge — 38.54°N, 120.88°WMcConnell Island — 79.14°N, 93.38°WStaffin Shale — 57.65°N, 6.24°WAgardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.88°ERichardson Mountains — 68.03°N, 135.43°WKingak Shale — 68.97°N, 148.12°W"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EChintna — 62.12°N, 147.70°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.25°N, 110.78°WMariposa — 37.60°N, 120.11°WSodiemykha — 72.59°N, 114.09°EOsgodby — 54.24°N, 0.36°WTuerdag — 40.83°N, 55.17°EHiccles Cove — 77.63°N, 94.20°W

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The named rock units Cadoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Cadoceras, 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

19 references

Each of the 222 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. 7 further references are 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

Media content2

Picture of Cadoceras

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

This entry was cached before the site began recording what Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource did, so a search that failed cannot be told from one that found nothing.

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 itCadoceratinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.