Liroceras
Searched as Coloceras globatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Liroceras as the accepted name.
No picture of Liroceras 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 Liroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiroceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 303.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Liroceras 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Liroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liroceras and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Liroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
1,058 taxa- Pseudorthoceras knoxense21 sites
- Trepospira illinoisensis16 sites
- Worthenia tabulata15 sites
- Crinoidea13 sites
- Composita subtilita12 sites
- Lophophyllidium11 sites
- Metacoceras11 sites
- Astartella concentrica10 sites
- Bactrites10 sites
- Domatoceras10 sites
- Euphemites10 sites
- Glabrocingulum10 sites
- Kutorginella lasallensis10 sites
- Pharkidonotus percarinatus10 sites
- Straparollus10 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa9 sites
- Glaphyrites modestus9 sites
- Gonioloboceras goniolobus9 sites
- Hustedia mormoni9 sites
- Meekospira9 sites
- Nuculopsis girtyi9 sites
- Phymatopleura brazoensis9 sites
- Tainoceras monilifer9 sites
- Caninia8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Liroceras, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Coloceras tavornikae · VPI:VTEC:000005090
No picture of Liroceras 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 Liroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLiroceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.