Dunveganoceras

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MammitinaePBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
48 occurrences of Dunveganoceras 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
48 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
11 formations
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group24
- Belle Fourche Formation14
- Graneros Shale Formation2
- Coleraine Formation1
- Dunvegan Formation1
- Greenhorn Limestone Formation · Colorado Group1
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The named rock units Dunveganoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dunveganoceras and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dunveganoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Metoicoceras mosbyense6 sites
- Metoicoceras muelleri4 sites
- Inoceramus corpulentus3 sites
- Ammobaculites2 sites
- Arctica murrayensis2 sites
- Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) canitaurinum2 sites
- Haplophragmoides2 sites
- Idiohamites bispinosus2 sites
- Inoceramus prefragilis2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Spiroplectammina2 sites
- Acompsoceras1 site
- Acompsoceras renevieri1 site
- Ammomarginulina1 site
- Anchura1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Borissjakoceras1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Brachydontes1 site
- Calycoceras1 site
- Calycoceras (Gentoniceras) gentoni1 site
- Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) asiaticum1 site
- Calycoceras boulei1 site
- Calycoceras spinosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Dunveganoceras, 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
12 references- Foraminifera of the Cenomanian Dunveganoceras Zone of the Peace River area of western Canada: Appendix - New Cenomanian ammonites from Alberta22
- Cenomanian ammonite fauna from the Mosby Sandstone of central Montana12
- Molluscan fossil record from the northeastern part of the Upper Cretaceous seaway, Western Interior3
- Tarrantoceras Stephenson and related ammonoid genera from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in Texas and the western interior of the United States2
- Foraminifera of the Cenomanian Dunveganoceras Zone of the Peace River area of western Canada2
- A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous; lower upper Cenomanian), Black Hills, South Dakota1
- Evolution and biogeography of the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonite Metoicoceras Hyatt, 1903, with a revision of Metoicoceras praecox Haas, 19491
- Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA1
- The Cenomanian-Coniacian of Sergipe Basin, Brazil1
- Les Acanthoceratidae Cénomaniens des châines subalpines méridionales1
- Zoneostratigraphie et paleo- geographie du Cenomanien du sud-est de la France1
- The Cretaceous Alberta Group and equivalent rocks, Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta1
Each of the 48 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 content2

Picture of Dunveganoceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMammitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warren and Stelck 1940