Episageceras

Episageceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpisageceratinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Permian — about 4 of 16 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 11 of 16 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiddle Triassic260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254.14 Mya247 Mya260.4 Mya241 Mya

16 occurrences of Episageceras on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

16 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

2 formations

Chhidru — 32.25°N, 71.14°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 71.85°ELower Sakamena — 13.45°S, 48.97°E

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The named rock units Episageceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Episageceras and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Episageceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Episageceras, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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 Episageceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Episageceras 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 itEpisageceratinae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noetling 1904