Dimorphotoceras arctum
No picture of Dimorphotoceras arctum 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 Dimorphotoceras arctum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimorphotocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dimorphotoceras arctum on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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- Late Triassic100%
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 Dimorphotoceras arctum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dimorphotoceras arctum and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Dimorphotoceras arctum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Acanthinites magnificus1 site
- Dimorphotoceras caurinum1 site
- Dimorphotoceras elegantulum1 site
- Dimorphotoceras ursinum1 site
- Juvavites biornatus1 site
- Juvavites concretus1 site
- Juvavites magnus1 site
- Prodrepanites catenatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dimorphotoceras arctum, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dimorphotoceras arctum 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 Dimorphotoceras arctum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimorphotoceras arctum 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 itDimorphotoceras through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McLearn 1940)