Dactylioceras kanense

Retallack, Gregory · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- DactyliocerasPBDB
- 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 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 182.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.
24 occurrences of Dactylioceras kanense on record, most of them in the Early 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
24 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
4 formations
- Fannin Formation · Maude Group6
- Spatsizi Formation · Hazelton Group6
- Sunrise Formation2
- Talkeetna Formation1
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The named rock units Dactylioceras kanense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dactylioceras kanense and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Dactylioceras kanense and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Harpoceratinae5 sites
- Tiltoniceras propinquum4 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Dactylioceras (Eodactylites) simplex2 sites
- Dactylioceras commune2 sites
- Protogrammoceras2 sites
- Protogrammoceras (Paltarpites) paltum2 sites
- Tiltoniceras antiquum2 sites
- Ammonitina1 site
- Dactylioceras (Eodactylites) pseudocommune1 site
- Eleganticeras exaratum1 site
- Fontanelliceras fontanellense1 site
- Lioceratoides (Lioceratoides)1 site
- Lioceratoides (Lioceratoides) allifordense1 site
- Pectinidae1 site
- Phymatoceras1 site
- Protogrammoceras (Protogrammoceras)1 site
- Rhynchonellida1 site
- Taffertia1 site
- Taffertia taffertensis1 site
- Terebratulida1 site
- Tiltoniceras1 site
- Weyla alata1 site
- Weyla bodenbenderi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Dactylioceras kanense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
8 references- Toarcian (Early Jurassic) ammonoids from western North America14
- Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Ammonoids from the Luning Embayment, West-Central Nevada, U.S.A.2
- Lower to Middle Jurassic Stratigraphy and Ammonite Fauna of the Northern Whitehorse Trough, Yukon, Canada2
- Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia2
- The Jurassic succession at Lisadele Lake (Tulsequah map area, British Columbia, Canada) and its bearing on the tectonic evolution of the Stikine terrane1
- Lower to Middle Jurassic stratigraphy, ammonoid fauna and sedimentary history of the Laberge Group in the Fish Lake syncline, northern Whitehorse Trough, Yukon, Canada1
- A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar time scale for the Jurassic1
- Mihalynuk et al., 19991
Each of the 24 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 Dactylioceras kanense
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Retallack, Gregory
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dactylioceras kanense was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDactylioceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McLearn 1930)