Epistroboceras

Epistroboceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpistroboceratidaePBDB
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 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 326.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 19 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 4 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences335.9 Mya326.9 Mya359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

19 occurrences of Epistroboceras 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

19 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

4 formations

Fayetteville — 35.74°N, 91.82°WFayetteville — 35.94°N, 94.20°WFayetteville — 36.08°N, 94.21°WFayetteville — 36.05°N, 94.17°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WPitkin — 35.84°N, 92.55°WPitkin — 35.69°N, 91.73°WBarnett — 30.67°N, 99.35°W

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The named rock units Epistroboceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epistroboceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Epistroboceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Epistroboceras, 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

Each of the 19 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 Epistroboceras

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Epistroboceras 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 itEpistroboceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Turner 1954)