Eleniceras

Eleniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.

Eleniceras

Motekov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
NeocomitinaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 47 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous137–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 3 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 3 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–126 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137.6 Mya125.3 Mya

47 occurrences of Eleniceras 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

47 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

7 formations

Rossfeld — 47.79°N, 14.52°EBrasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°EEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°EGrand Essert — 45.97°N, 5.61°EKaliste — 49.03°N, 18.33°EPieniny Limestone — 48.73°N, 17.47°EMraznica — 49.03°N, 18.33°E

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The named rock units Eleniceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eleniceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Eleniceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Eleniceras, 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 47 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 Eleniceras

Credit
Motekov
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eleniceras 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNeocomitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Breskovski 1967