Esericeras
No picture of Esericeras 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 Esericeras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhymatoceratidaePBDB
- 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 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Esericeras 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
23 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Esericeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Esericeras and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Esericeras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Grammoceras penestriatulum6 sites
- Pseudogrammoceras differens4 sites
- Podagrosites pseudogrunowi3 sites
- Grammoceras thouarsense2 sites
- Perilytoceras jurense2 sites
- Phymatoceras2 sites
- Polyplectus discoides2 sites
- Pseudogrammoceras2 sites
- Pseudogrammoceras fallaciosum2 sites
- Calliphylloceras aveyronnense1 site
- Cenoceras ciryi1 site
- Denckmannia erbaensis1 site
- Ligeiceras globulus1 site
- Lytoceras1 site
- Ophionautilus schwalmi1 site
- Osperleioceras1 site
- Paroniceras sternale1 site
- Perilytoceras perlaevis1 site
- Pseudogibbirhynchia bothenhamptonensis1 site
- Pseudogrammoceras bingmanni1 site
- Pseudogrammoceras differens pseudostruckmanni1 site
- Pseudogrammoceras latescens1 site
- Pseudogrammoceras muelleri1 site
- Pseudogrammoceras struckmanni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Esericeras, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
8 references- Évolution et systématique des Phymatoceratinae et des Grammoceratinae (Hildocerataceae Ammonitina) de la région de Thouars, stratotype du Toarcien10
- Les Harpoceratinae, Hildoceratinae et Parinoceratinae du Toarcien de la Vendée et des Deux-Sèvres (France)5
- Les Brachiopodes liasiques de la Bordure Sud du Massif Armoricain: Succession des peuplements et environnements ; chronostratigraphie2
- Biozonación del Toarciense en el área de La Almunia de Doña Godina-Ricla (Sector Central de la Cordillera Ibérica)2
- The Ammonite zones of the Toarcian in Bulgaria - New evidence, subzonation and correlation with the standard zones and subzones in North-Western Europe1
- Caracterización de Choffatirhynchia nov. gen. (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellida) en el Toarciense (Jurásico) de la Cordillera Ibérica (España)1
- Das Makrobenthos der Causses (Südfrankreich): Palökologie einer mittel- bis oberliassischen Mergelfolge1
- Perilytoceras nov. gen. (Lytoceratina), from the Upper Toarcian of the NW European realm1
Each of the 23 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
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No picture of Esericeras 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 Esericeras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Esericeras 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 itPhymatoceratidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.