Diplomoceras cylindraceum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiplomocerasPBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
120 occurrences of Diplomoceras cylindraceum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
120 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
24 formations
- Lopez de Bertodano Formation23
- Matanuska Formation20
- Danish White Chalk Formation11
- Miria Formation11
- Upper Lopez de Bertodano Formation7
- Craie de Valognes Formation4
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The named rock units Diplomoceras cylindraceum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diplomoceras cylindraceum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Diplomoceras cylindraceum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Hoploscaphites constrictus21 sites
- Pseudophyllites indra18 sites
- Eubaculites carinatus15 sites
- Maorites densicostatus14 sites
- Desmophyllites diphylloides11 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) surya11 sites
- Phyllopachyceras forbesianum11 sites
- Gunnarites kalika10 sites
- Menuites fresvillensis9 sites
- Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus9 sites
- Baculites anceps8 sites
- Baculites vertebralis8 sites
- Gaudryceras kayei8 sites
- Hoploscaphites tenuistriatus8 sites
- Inoceramus subundatus8 sites
- Kitchinites spathi8 sites
- Grossouvrites gemmatus7 sites
- Grossouvrites joharae7 sites
- Anagaudryceras politissimum6 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) hetonaiense6 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum6 sites
- Eubaculites simplex5 sites
- Glyptoxoceras rugatum5 sites
- Hoploscaphites5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Diplomoceras cylindraceum, 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
30 references- Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) ammonites from southern Alaska22
- Late Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite fauna from Seymour Island (Antarctic Peninsula)18
- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian White Chalk of Denmark14
- Maastrichtian heteromorph ammonites from the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia11
- The Upper Cretaceous cephalopod fauna of Graham Land8
- Evolution and extinction of Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from the López de Bertodano Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica7
- Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island4
- The ammonites fauna of the Calcaire á Baculites (Upper Maastrichtian) of the Cotentin Peninsula (Manche, France)4
- New record of Diplomoceras cylindraceum (Defrance, 1816) from the Maastrichtian of the Western Fore-Balkan (Bulgaria)3
- Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile3
- Stratigraphy and ammonites of Cretaceous deposits of south-west Crimea3
- Middle and late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) ammonoids from the Akkeshi Bay area, eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan and their biostratigraphic implications2
Each of the 120 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. 18 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 content1
Picture of Diplomoceras cylindraceum
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No 3D scan of Diplomoceras cylindraceum 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 itDiplomoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1816)