Goniatites americanus

No picture of Goniatites americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniatites americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GoniatitesPBDB
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 most 7.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 335.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 25 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferous343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence340–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 2 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 2 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343.4 Mya334.9 Mya

25 occurrences of Goniatites americanus 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

25 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

2 formations

Chainman — 39.60°N, 113.68°WChainman — 39.28°N, 113.63°WChainman — 39.18°N, 113.72°WChainman — 38.57°N, 113.95°WChainman — 38.78°N, 113.85°WChainman — 39.00°N, 114.67°WChainman Shale — 39.61°N, 113.68°W

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The named rock units Goniatites americanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Goniatites americanus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Goniatites americanus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Goniatites americanus, 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

2 references

Each of the 25 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Goniatites americanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniatites americanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gordon 1971