Douvilleiceras offarcinatum

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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 least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
8 occurrences of Douvilleiceras offarcinatum 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Cuchillo Formation · Trinity Group2
- Glen Rose Limestone Formation1
- Riachuelo Formation1
- Inca Formation1
- Haida Formation1
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The named rock units Douvilleiceras offarcinatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Douvilleiceras offarcinatum and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Douvilleiceras offarcinatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Anomia sergipensis2 sites
- Cardium (Nemocardium) brasiliense2 sites
- Hypacanthoplites bakeri2 sites
- Isocardia branneri2 sites
- Kazanskyella2 sites
- Neithea quadricostata lastroensis2 sites
- Neodeshayesites mayfieldensis2 sites
- Panopea brasiliensis2 sites
- Panopea rathbuni2 sites
- Trigonia coqueiroensis2 sites
- Turbo portentus2 sites
- Tylostoma minimum2 sites
- Tylostoma whitei2 sites
- Veneridae2 sites
- Acera browni1 site
- Acesta1 site
- Ammonitida1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) reticulata1 site
- Ampullina subhumerosa1 site
- Ampullospira whitei1 site
- Beudanticeras1 site
- Crassatellites maroimensis1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Desmoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Douvilleiceras offarcinatum, 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
5 references- Maury, 19363
- Texas Cretaceous ammonites and nautiloids2
- Early Albian (Early Cretaceous) douvilleiceratid ammonites from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada1
- Albian ammonite faunas from Peru: The genus Neodeshaesites Casey, 19641
- Lower Albian and Aptian (Cretaceous) ammonites of Texas1
Each of the 8 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 offarcinatum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- 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. (White 1887)