Epophioceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsteroceratidaePBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
42 occurrences of Epophioceras on record, most of them in the Early 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
42 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
14 formations
- Sunrise Formation9
- Inklin Formation · Laberge Group7
- Sierra de Santa Rosa Formation · El Antimonio Group6
- Isztimér Limestone Formation2
- Antimonio Formation2
- Quebrada del Salitre Formation2
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The named rock units Epophioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epophioceras and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Epophioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Arnioceras3 sites
- Asteroceras stellare3 sites
- Ammonitina2 sites
- Asoella asapha2 sites
- Bouhamidoceras zizense2 sites
- Entolium lunare2 sites
- Frenguelliella poultoni2 sites
- Galaticeras2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Geyeroceras cylindricum2 sites
- Gibbirhynchia2 sites
- Goniomya2 sites
- Groeberella neuquensis2 sites
- Gryphaea2 sites
- Gryphaea cymbium2 sites
- Juraphyllites2 sites
- Lucina2 sites
- Microderoceras birchi2 sites
- Nannobelus2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Pinna folium2 sites
- Praechlamys valoniensis2 sites
- Protocardia2 sites
- Stylophyllopsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Epophioceras, 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
17 references- Hettangian and Sinemurian ammonoid zonation for the western Cordillera of North America11
- Ammonoid biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Lower Jurassic sections from Sonora (northwest Mexico) and their tectonic implications6
- Provenance Constraints on Early Jurassic Evolution of the Northern Stikinian Arc: Laberge Group, Whitehorse Trough, Northwestern British Columbia4
- Early Jurassic evolution of the northern Stikinian arc: evidence from the Laberge Group, northwestern British Columbia3
- Carta Exploradora, Regiones de Antofagasta y Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 19: 103 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.0002
- Early Jurassic shell beds from marginal marine environments in southern Mendoza, Argentina2
- Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie)2
- Hettangian and Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) biostratigraphy of Argentina2
- Paléontologie Française - Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnés fossiles de France - Terrains jurassiques. [Céphalopodes]2
- A systematic account of the ammonite faunas of the Obtusum Zone (Sinemurian Stage, Lower Jurassic) from Marston Magna, Somerset, UK1
- Austroalpine Liassic ammonites from Vorarlberg (Austria, Northern Calcareous Alps)1
- Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne1
Each of the 42 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. 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Epophioceras 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 Epophioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epophioceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAsteroceratidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1924