Eocephalites

Eocephalites is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites. It lived during the Bajocian.

No picture of Eocephalites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eocephalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaeroceratidaePBDB
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 2.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 31 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence171.4 Mya167.7 Mya

31 occurrences of Eocephalites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

31 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

1 formation

Twin Creek Limestone — 42.40°N, 111.04°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.35°N, 110.79°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.32°N, 110.70°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.20°N, 110.82°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.08°N, 111.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.84°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.94°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.92°N, 111.25°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.51°N, 111.33°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.45°N, 111.37°WTwin Creek Limestone — 39.97°N, 111.52°W

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The named rock units Eocephalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eocephalites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Eocephalites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Eocephalites, 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

1 reference

Each of the 31 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Eocephalites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eocephalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eocephalites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itSphaeroceratidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

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