Elobiceras
No picture of Elobiceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elobiceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MortoniceratinaePBDB
- 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 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
47 occurrences of Elobiceras 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- Early 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Elobiceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elobiceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Elobiceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Prohysteroceras wordiei4 sites
- Hysteroceras binum3 sites
- Hysteroceras pseudovaricosum3 sites
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme3 sites
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) subrotundum3 sites
- Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia)3 sites
- Neokentroceras subtuberculatum3 sites
- Prohysteroceras3 sites
- Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana3 sites
- Stomohamites virgulatus3 sites
- Anisoceras2 sites
- Anisoceras armatum2 sites
- Anisoceras perarmatum2 sites
- Desmoceras difficile2 sites
- Epiaster catumbellensis2 sites
- Hamites2 sites
- Hamites angolensis2 sites
- Hysteroceras choffati2 sites
- Hysteroceras orbignyi2 sites
- Hysteroceras semileve2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Angolaites) simplex2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Boeseites) romeri2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum2 sites
- Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Elobiceras, 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
7 references- The Vernay Collection of Cretaceous (Albian) ammonites from Angola17
- On Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Angola, collected by Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S14
- The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of southern Nigeria and the southern Cameroons8
- The Albian Ammonoidea of Nigeria5
- Late Albian ammonites from northwest Algeria: Biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic and paleoenvironmental inferences1
- O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte1
- Zur kenntniss der mittelcretacischen cephalopoden-fauna der inseln Elobi an der westküste Afrika's1
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
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No picture of Elobiceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Elobiceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elobiceras 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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What may have been alongside itMortoniceratinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1922