Euaspidoceras

Euaspidoceras is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus that lived during the Middle Jurassic.

Euaspidoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuaspidoceratinaePBDB
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 least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 24 of 233 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 209 of 233 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 233 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 6 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 6 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 30 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 50 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 50 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 28 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 16 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 15 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 15 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya149.2 Mya165.9 Mya136.5 Mya

233 occurrences of Euaspidoceras on record, most of them in the Late 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

233 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

24 formations

La Manga — 36.83°S, 71.00°WLa Manga — 34.50°S, 70.00°WLa Manga — 36.21°S, 69.69°WLa Manga — 36.21°S, 69.87°WRosso Ammonitico — 38.00°N, 12.00°EHanifa — 24.52°N, 45.95°EHanifa — 24.83°N, 46.00°EHanifa — 24.95°N, 46.15°EHanifa — 25.17°N, 46.15°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ELotena — 39.00°S, 70.00°WLotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLotena — 36.22°S, 69.88°WLotena — 37.00°S, 71.00°W"Hartmannshof" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EYatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WCalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WBirmensdorf — 47.47°N, 8.04°EOgrodzieniec Glauconitic Marl — 50.46°N, 19.52°E"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EPálihálás Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.51°ENaifa — 14.31°N, 48.48°ECoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WWagad — 23.48°N, 70.46°EOxford Clay — 52.55°N, 0.24°WLotena — 36.00°S, 71.00°WTheoi Marls — 46.40°N, 0.06°WStaffin Shale — 57.65°N, 6.24°WImpressamergel — 48.21°N, 8.81°EGory Neveb — 44.18°N, 39.20°ESierra Fraga — 25.99°S, 69.41°WSengenthal — 49.36°N, 11.92°E

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The named rock units Euaspidoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 160 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euaspidoceras and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Euaspidoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

685 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Euaspidoceras, 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

37 references

Each of the 233 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. 25 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 content2

Picture of Euaspidoceras

Credit
Neoammoniten
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEuaspidoceratinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1931)