Eleganticeras

Eleganticeras

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · 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
HarpoceratinaePBDB
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 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 185 of 185 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 148 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 19 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 12 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–176 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–175 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182.9 Mya – 180.4 Mya202.2 Mya160.7 Mya

185 occurrences of Eleganticeras on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

185 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

23 formations

Jet Rock — 54.55°N, 0.77°WJet Rock — 54.53°N, 0.71°WJet Rock — 54.46°N, 0.54°WJet Rock — 54.48°N, 0.58°WJet Rock — 54.40°N, 0.49°WWhiteaves — 53.42°N, 132.26°WWhiteaves — 53.20°N, 132.05°WWhiteaves — 52.96°N, 131.61°WHall — 49.23°N, 117.30°WSpatsizi — 57.49°N, 128.87°WSpatsizi — 57.62°N, 128.97°WSpatsizi — 57.56°N, 128.90°WCamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WTakwahoni — 58.80°N, 133.11°WTakwahoni — 58.68°N, 133.09°WTakwahoni — 58.63°N, 132.85°WTakwahoni — 58.66°N, 132.68°WTakwahoni — 58.60°N, 132.52°WTakwahoni — 58.50°N, 132.50°WCastillo Pedroso — 43.15°N, 4.37°WAgoudim — 31.95°N, 5.04°WPosidonienschiefer — 49.35°N, 11.36°EFernie — 50.92°N, 115.00°WOzirovo — 41.89°N, 24.58°EOzirovo — 43.22°N, 23.39°EUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSunrise — 39.33°N, 118.07°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°WLautaro — 28.25°S, 69.93°WLautaro — 28.15°S, 69.79°WKingak — 68.28°N, 137.79°WMaude — 53.20°N, 132.06°WTalkeetna — 61.73°N, 148.50°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WBayada — 35.08°N, 1.77°WStaa — 36.38°N, 10.13°EAït Athmane — 32.07°N, 4.38°WPosidonia Shale — 48.63°N, 9.52°E

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The named rock units Eleganticeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eleganticeras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Eleganticeras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Eleganticeras, 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

27 references

Each of the 185 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. 15 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 Eleganticeras

Source
GBIF
Credit
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eleganticeras 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.