Domatoceras

Domatoceras is a nautiloid genus and member of the Grypoceratidae from the Pennsylvanian and Permian with a wide spread distribution.

Domatoceras

Geological Survey of Texas; Dumble, E. T, (Edwin Theodore. 1852-1927 · Public Domain · 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
DomatoceratidaePBDB
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 least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 62 of 118 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 56 of 118 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 118 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 2 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 7 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 10 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 11 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 20 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 3 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–280 Mya — about 6 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 6 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 4 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 16 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 13 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence335.9 Mya254.14 Mya349 Mya250 Mya

118 occurrences of Domatoceras 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

118 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

28 formations

Graham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.15°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WJulfa — 38.94°N, 45.51°EJulfa — 39.01°N, 45.43°EJulfa — 38.73°N, 45.58°ESan Andres — 32.92°N, 105.73°WSan Andres — 32.89°N, 105.17°WSan Andres — 32.95°N, 105.83°WSan Andres — 35.30°N, 108.10°WHambast — 30.91°N, 53.22°EHambast — 31.57°N, 52.44°EJulfa — 38.97°N, 45.53°EChupadera — 35.29°N, 108.10°WChupadera — 33.03°N, 106.14°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.10°N, 111.10°WKaibab — 36.06°N, 112.12°WWolf Mountain — 33.22°N, 97.82°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WAkhura — 39.56°N, 45.21°EAkhura — 38.97°N, 45.53°ESteshev — 54.88°N, 37.44°EPalo Quemado — 26.37°N, 102.94°WDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WToyoma — 38.52°N, 141.49°EAkhura — 39.54°N, 45.43°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.20°EClyde — 33.62°N, 99.10°WPalmarito — 10.40°N, 72.99°WDalong — 24.80°N, 109.44°ELost Branch — 36.34°N, 95.83°WVanport — 40.99°N, 80.33°W

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The named rock units Domatoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Domatoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Domatoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

815 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Domatoceras, 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

36 references

Each of the 118 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. 24 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 Domatoceras

Credit
Geological Survey of Texas; Dumble, E. T, (Edwin Theodore. 1852-1927
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Domatoceras 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1891)