Falcitornoceras
Falcitornoceras is a goniatitid ammonite from the Late Devonian, early Famennian, that has been found in France and Spain. Falcitornoceras was named by House and Price, 1985, and is the type genus for the subfamily Falcitornoceratinae.
No picture of Falcitornoceras 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 Falcitornoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FalcitornoceratinaePBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
5 occurrences of Falcitornoceras on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Falcitornoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Falcitornoceras and its relatives
DevonianWhere Falcitornoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Lobobactrites2 sites
- Actinopteria1 site
- Ancyrognathus1 site
- Aulacella interlineata1 site
- Bactrites1 site
- Branmehla1 site
- Calybole denckmanni1 site
- Cheiloceras1 site
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum1 site
- Cheiloceras (Compactoceras)1 site
- Cheiloceras sacculum1 site
- Dianops typhlops1 site
- Entomoprimitia (Reptiprimitia)1 site
- Guerichia1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Loxopteria1 site
- Maeneceras1 site
- Nephranops dillanus1 site
- Palaeolima1 site
- Palmatolepis1 site
- Palmatolepis minuta1 site
- Paratorleyoceras globosum1 site
- Pelekysgnathus1 site
- Phoenixites frechi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Falcitornoceras, 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
5 references- The “Nehden Goniatite Shale” (lower Famennian, Brilon Reef Complex, NE Rhenish Massif)1
- Upper Devonian goniatites and co-occurring conodonts from the Holy Cross Mountains: studies of the Polish Geological Institute collections1
- Definition of the Frasnian/Famennian Stage boundary1
- Zur Kenntnis von Hemberg-Stufe und Annulata-Schiefer im Nordsauerland (Oberdevon, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, GK 4611 Hohenlimburg)1
- The Devonian of Celtiberia (Spain) and Devonian paleogeography of SW Europe1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Falcitornoceras 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 Falcitornoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Falcitornoceras 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFalcitornoceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. House and Price 1985