Ephippioceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EphippioceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 27 of 30 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 30 occurrencesPermian341–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–328 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 3 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–316 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.9 Mya283.3 Mya341 Mya273 Mya

30 occurrences of Ephippioceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

30 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

11 formations

Graham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.19°N, 98.11°WWolf Mountain — 33.22°N, 97.82°WKamenskaya — 48.42°N, 39.21°EKamenskaya — 48.57°N, 38.94°EHale — 36.02°N, 93.87°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WAlvy Creek — 36.80°N, 84.55°WCamp Creek — 31.40°N, 99.48°WTalpa — 33.51°N, 99.12°WHueco — 32.37°N, 105.95°WMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°EZrigat — 31.05°N, 3.64°W

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The named rock units Ephippioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ephippioceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Ephippioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Ephippioceras, 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

15 references

Each of the 30 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. 3 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

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No picture of Ephippioceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ephippioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ephippioceras 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 itEphippioceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884