Goniatites falcatus
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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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Goniatites falcatus 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Gayle Limestone Cyclothem Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
- Bellavally Formation1
- Alba Formation1
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The named rock units Goniatites falcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Goniatites falcatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Goniatites falcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Chonetes2 sites
- Dictyoclostus2 sites
- Posidonia becheri2 sites
- Amusium (Pseudamussium)1 site
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus1 site
- Archaediscus1 site
- Aulophyllum1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Brachycycloceras1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Bucanopsis hibernicus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Clisiophyllum keyserlingi1 site
- Composita1 site
- Cycloceras1 site
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus1 site
- Duerleyoceras1 site
- Echinoconchus punctatus1 site
- Endothyra bowmani1 site
- Eomarginifera1 site
- Euomphalus1 site
- Euomphalus catillus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Goniatites falcatus, 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
3 references- The upper Visean and Namurian Shales of the Doagh Outlier, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland1
- Lower Namurian goniatites from the Griotte limestone of the Cantabric Mountain Chain1
- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Goniatites falcatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Goniatites falcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniatites falcatus 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 itGoniatites through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1850