Hyperlioceras

Hyperlioceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod included in the ammonitid family Graphoceratidae that lived during the Bajocian stage of the Middle Jurassic. The type species is Hyperlioceras discites

Hyperlioceras

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
GraphoceratinaePBDB
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 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 40 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic175–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences175.2 Mya167.7 Mya

40 occurrences of Hyperlioceras 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

40 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

4 formations

Agoudim — 32.24°N, 4.26°WCastillo Pedroso — 43.02°N, 4.17°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°ELower Dhruma — 23.97°N, 46.25°E

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The named rock units Hyperlioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyperlioceras and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Hyperlioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Hyperlioceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 40 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 content2

Picture of Hyperlioceras

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGraphoceratinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.