Kamerunoceras

Kamerunoceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the ammonite family Acanthoceratidae, found in Upper Cretaceous formations of Africa, Europe and North and South America.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuomphaloceratinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 51 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 51 of 51 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

51 occurrences of Kamerunoceras on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

51 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

18 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EMungo River — 4.55°N, 9.53°EMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WLa Luna — 9.62°N, 70.35°WAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°EAbu Qada — 30.37°N, 34.45°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°EChispa Summit — 31.06°N, 105.25°WChispa Summit — 30.71°N, 104.78°WEze-Aku — 6.00°N, 7.47°EKef — 35.50°N, 8.88°EMarnes verts a Exogyres — 45.83°N, 0.65°WColorado — 32.87°N, 108.60°WColorado — 32.70°N, 108.60°WOjinaga — 30.75°N, 105.18°WOdukpani — 5.21°N, 8.22°EOjinaga — 30.80°N, 105.28°WMungo River — 7.74°N, 8.50°EBranderfleck — 47.76°N, 14.55°EPuentedey — 42.97°N, 3.69°WHornillatorre — 42.97°N, 3.69°W

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The named rock units Kamerunoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kamerunoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Kamerunoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Kamerunoceras, 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

25 references

Each of the 51 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Kamerunoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Kamerunoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kamerunoceras 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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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. Reyment 1954