Fuciniceras

Fuciniceras is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the ammonoid family Hildoceratidae,, that lived during the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic. The shell of Fuciniceras is generally small, evolute, and strongly ribbed.

Fuciniceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtogrammoceratinaePBDB
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 27 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 363 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 363 of 363 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 363 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence198–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–193 Mya — about 9 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 34 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 34 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 34 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 34 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 34 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 34 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 34 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 34 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 40 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 26 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 9 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

363 occurrences of Fuciniceras 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

363 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

Isztimér — 47.19°N, 17.90°EIsztimér — 47.28°N, 17.84°ENishinakayama — 34.25°N, 131.00°EInklin — 59.34°N, 133.73°WInklin — 59.25°N, 133.86°WInklin — 59.29°N, 133.96°WInklin — 59.42°N, 134.00°WTűzkövesárok Limestone — 47.34°N, 18.09°EIsztimér Limestone — 47.18°N, 17.88°ESierra de Santa Rosa — 30.06°N, 111.65°WFannin — 53.38°N, 132.27°WFannin — 53.41°N, 132.25°WFannin — 53.20°N, 132.05°WAdnet — 47.46°N, 13.56°EAllgäu — 47.14°N, 9.84°EAllgäu — 47.18°N, 9.98°EAllgäu — 47.15°N, 10.10°ECerro del Pez — 41.29°N, 0.79°WOust — 36.37°N, 10.09°EOust — 36.35°N, 10.07°EBou Gabrine — 36.35°N, 10.12°EChoucht to Agoudim — 31.94°N, 4.96°WAin Ouarka — 32.71°N, 0.16°WCalcari Grigi — 45.45°N, 11.00°EMaude — 53.17°N, 132.03°WTakwahoni — 58.67°N, 132.91°WSpatsizi — 57.47°N, 128.94°WStaa — 36.37°N, 10.13°EMaftah 1 top to Maftah 2 base — 33.46°N, 4.99°WMaftah 3 — 33.45°N, 4.92°WAgoudim — 31.98°N, 5.01°WAdnet — 48.89°N, 19.08°ESailor Canyon — 39.20°N, 120.50°W

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The named rock units Fuciniceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 210 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fuciniceras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Fuciniceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

325 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 196 sites for Fuciniceras, 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

41 references

Each of the 363 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. 29 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 Fuciniceras

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F.Venturi
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fuciniceras 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haas 1913