Gowericeras
No picture of Gowericeras was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Gowericeras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KosmoceratidaePBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Gowericeras on record, most of them in the Middle 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
7 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
5 formations
- Chinitna Formation3
- Dalles à Bryozoaires Formation1
- Croûte ferrugineuse Formation1
- "Berching" Formation1
- Colfax Formation1
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The named rock units Gowericeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gowericeras and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Gowericeras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Choffatia3 sites
- Indosphinctes2 sites
- Indosphinctes (Elatmites) curvicosta2 sites
- Indosphinctes pseudopatina2 sites
- Indosphinctes urbanus2 sites
- Kamptokephalites2 sites
- Pleurocephalites2 sites
- Proplanulites2 sites
- Cadoceras1 site
- Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras) catostoma1 site
- Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras) grewingki1 site
- Cadoceras comma1 site
- Cadoceras glabrum1 site
- Choffatia furcula1 site
- Dictyothyris smithi1 site
- Digonella1 site
- Dolikephalites1 site
- Hecticoceras1 site
- Hecticoceras hecticus1 site
- Indosphinctes peregrinus1 site
- Kepplerites (Gowericeras) lindgreni1 site
- Kosmoceras1 site
- Macrocephalites1 site
- Macrocephalites macrocephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gowericeras, 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
4 references- Callovian (Jurassic) ammonites from the United States and Alaska Part 2. Alaska Peninsula and Cook Inlet regions3
- La succession des faunes dans le Callovien Francais, essais de corrélation à l'échelle de la zone2
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]1
- Late Jurassic ammonites from the western Sierra Nevada, California1
Each of the 7 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 Gowericeras was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Gowericeras, 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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What may have been alongside itKosmoceratidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buckman 1921)