Gastrioceras

Gastrioceras is a goniatitid genus in the family Gastrioceratidae that lived during the late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian and for most of the Permian.

Gastrioceras

Linda Spashett Storye book · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
GastrioceratidaePBDB
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 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 149 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 140 of 149 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 149 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 149 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 23 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 76 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 9 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 16 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 12 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences323.4 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

149 occurrences of Gastrioceras 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

149 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

27 formations

Gastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.65°N, 2.65°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.58°N, 2.43°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.70°N, 2.30°WGastrioceras cumbriense Marine Band — 53.72°N, 2.08°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WMospyne — 48.23°N, 39.21°EMospyne — 48.24°N, 39.34°EWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WWitts Springs — 35.82°N, 92.81°WWitts Springs — 35.83°N, 93.13°WWitts Springs — 35.63°N, 94.42°WWitts Springs — 35.79°N, 92.87°WBloyd Shale — 35.77°N, 94.38°WBloyd Shale — 36.02°N, 93.87°WBloyd Shale — 35.89°N, 94.17°WBloyd Shale — 35.87°N, 94.10°WBloyd Shale — 35.79°N, 94.24°WFour Corners — 37.70°N, 82.79°WFour Corners — 37.59°N, 82.77°WFour Corners — 37.25°N, 83.30°WFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°WJohns Valley — 34.77°N, 94.01°WUnion Valley — 34.71°N, 96.58°WUnion Valley — 34.69°N, 96.54°WHare Fiord — 79.15°N, 87.05°WHare Fiord — 80.73°N, 85.68°WHare Fiord — 80.76°N, 85.52°WHare Fiord — 80.91°N, 84.25°WHare Fiord — 80.90°N, 84.18°WBloyd — 36.06°N, 94.15°WBloyd — 35.89°N, 94.21°WOtto Fiord — 76.65°N, 109.05°WOtto Fiord — 81.06°N, 85.54°WJingyuan — 37.20°N, 105.37°EGreta Grit — 54.00°N, 2.83°WWinslow — 36.07°N, 94.15°WWinslow — 35.63°N, 94.39°WGolf Course — 34.23°N, 96.76°WSmithwick — 31.45°N, 104.89°WSmithwick — 31.10°N, 98.52°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.68°WCoffeyville — 36.34°N, 95.83°WMiddle Culm — 51.05°N, 4.18°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WPhosphoria — 42.22°N, 111.01°WMeade Peak — 42.28°N, 111.02°WFodele — 35.41°N, 24.78°EShaksgam — 35.78°N, 76.82°E

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The named rock units Gastrioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gastrioceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gastrioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

482 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Gastrioceras, 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

27 references

Each of the 149 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. 15 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 Gastrioceras

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Linda Spashett Storye book
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CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Gastrioceras fittsi · SUI:13959

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. Hyatt 1884