Douvilleiceras inaequinodum
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas · 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
- DouvilleicerasPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Douvilleiceras inaequinodum on record, most of them in the Early 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
25 occurrences- Early 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
8 formations
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group5
- Mzinene Formation4
- Ambarimaninga Formation2
- Glen Rose Limestone Formation · Trinity Group1
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation1
- Schrattenkalk Formation1
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The named rock units Douvilleiceras inaequinodum 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.
Douvilleiceras inaequinodum and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Douvilleiceras inaequinodum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
314 taxa- Douvilleiceras mammillatum19 sites
- Protanisoceras11 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum8 sites
- Beudanticeras6 sites
- Cymatoceras sakalavum6 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata6 sites
- Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae6 sites
- Roberticeras newtoni6 sites
- Cleoniceras5 sites
- Metahamites5 sites
- Panopea5 sites
- Sonneratia5 sites
- Ammonoceratites4 sites
- Argonauticeras belliseptatum4 sites
- Hamites praegibbosus4 sites
- Otohoplites4 sites
- Perissoptera4 sites
- Pseudosonneratia4 sites
- Puzosia4 sites
- Rhynchonella4 sites
- Roberticeras dupinianum4 sites
- Roberticeras hourcqi4 sites
- Terebratula4 sites
- Aioloceras besairiei3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Douvilleiceras inaequinodum, 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
10 references- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires9
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand5
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The Albian ammonite genus Douvilleiceras de Grossouvre, 18944
- New Albian ammonite faunas from Semelenberg (Alpstein, Switzerland) and their paleoecology1
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- Lower Cretaceous (Middle Albian) ammonites from Dombe Grande, Angola1
- The Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand, part IX1
- Lower Albian and Aptian (Cretaceous) ammonites of Texas1
- Cretaceous ammonites and nautiloids from Angola1
- Nouvelles données sur l'Albien de la Chartreuse et du Vercors1
Each of the 25 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 Douvilleiceras inaequinodum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDouvilleiceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1849)