Eleganticeras elegantulum

Eleganticeras elegantulum

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
EleganticerasPBDB
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 1.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 182.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 43 of 43 occurrencesEarly Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence184.7 Mya182.4 Mya

43 occurrences of Eleganticeras elegantulum 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

43 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

6 formations

Jet Rock — 54.55°N, 0.77°WJet Rock — 54.53°N, 0.71°WJet Rock — 54.46°N, 0.54°WJet Rock — 54.40°N, 0.49°WCamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WOzirovo — 41.89°N, 24.58°ECastillo Pedroso — 43.15°N, 4.37°WUpper Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Eleganticeras elegantulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eleganticeras elegantulum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Eleganticeras elegantulum, 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

Each of the 43 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 Eleganticeras elegantulum

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

No 3D scan of Eleganticeras elegantulum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itEleganticeras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young and Bird 1828)