Eutrephoceras stephensoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EutrephocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Nautilidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eutrephoceras stephensoni on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Eutrephoceras stephensoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eutrephoceras stephensoni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Eutrephoceras stephensoni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Glycimeris major3 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana2 sites
- Claibornites (Codalucina) muirensis2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
- Pitar simiensis2 sites
- Polinices susanaensis2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Amauropsis martinezensis1 site
- Anchura englishi1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Bruetia traski1 site
- Cucullaea mathewsonii1 site
- Cypraeoidea1 site
- Dentalium cooperi1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Fissurella behri1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gyrodes robustus1 site
- Hercoglossa merriami1 site
- Macrocallista caryi1 site
- Miltha turneri1 site
- Naticina obliqua1 site
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii1 site
- Olivella mathewsonii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eutrephoceras stephensoni, 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
4 references- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California3
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
- Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas1
- Nautiloid cephalopods from the Eocene of California1
Each of the 6 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 Eutrephoceras stephensoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Eutrephoceras stephensoni 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 itEutrephoceras through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dickerson 1914)