Indocephalites

Indocephalites is a true ammonite and a possible subgenus of Macrocephalites, belonging to the stephanoceratacean family, Macrocephalitidae. Inner whorls form a cadicone, outer become more compressed and smoother. Ribs are simple, crossing the venter straight and uninterrupted. Pleurocephalites, another possible subgenus of Macrocephalites, is quite similar.

Indocephalites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacrocephalitidaePBDB
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 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 43 of 43 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 43 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.7 Mya161 Mya

43 occurrences of Indocephalites 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

43 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

Menbu — 28.08°N, 86.00°EBela — 23.87°N, 70.80°E

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The named rock units Indocephalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Indocephalites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Indocephalites, 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

6 references

Each of the 43 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 content1

Picture of Indocephalites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itMacrocephalitidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.