Eumorphoceras

Eumorphoceras

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GirtyoceratinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
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 72 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 72 of 72 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 4 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 12 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 12 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 11 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 9 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 9 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 3 occurrences335.9 Mya326.9 Mya359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

72 occurrences of Eumorphoceras 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

72 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

18 formations

Fayetteville — 36.03°N, 92.80°WFayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.17°WFayetteville — 36.06°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 35.67°N, 91.66°WFayetteville — 35.90°N, 92.62°WFayetteville — 36.01°N, 93.97°WFayetteville — 35.74°N, 91.76°WFayetteville — 35.64°N, 91.51°WFayetteville — 35.75°N, 94.39°WBarnett — 31.16°N, 98.69°WBarnett — 30.67°N, 99.35°WBarnett — 30.64°N, 98.55°WBarnett — 31.21°N, 98.32°WCarboniferous Limestone — 52.83°N, 2.00°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.17°N, 1.87°WPitkin — 35.84°N, 92.55°WPitkin — 35.79°N, 92.94°WPitkin — 35.79°N, 92.54°WUpper Limestone — 55.58°N, 3.92°WUpper Limestone — 55.80°N, 4.31°WUpper Limestone — 55.76°N, 3.81°WCarey — 34.48°N, 97.19°WRoeburndale — 54.10°N, 2.65°WRoeburndale — 54.03°N, 2.68°WCaney — 34.66°N, 96.60°WCaney — 34.33°N, 96.41°WDergvone Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WRest Spring — 36.77°N, 117.45°WRest Spring — 36.55°N, 117.81°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WLower Borland Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WTarnbrook Wyre Marine Beds — 54.00°N, 2.83°WCaton Shales — 54.00°N, 2.83°WImo — 35.79°N, 92.54°WKlyuchiki — 56.42°N, 61.81°EBrazer Limestone — 41.56°N, 111.96°W

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The named rock units Eumorphoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eumorphoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eumorphoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Eumorphoceras, 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

19 references

Each of the 72 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. 7 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 content1

Picture of Eumorphoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eumorphoceras 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 itGirtyoceratinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1909