Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei

Kurt Meiers · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- Liparoceras (Becheiceras)PBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 183.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei on record, most of them in the Early 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
23 occurrences- Early 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
6 formations
- Fannin Formation · Maude Group4
- Tűzkövesárok Limestone Formation3
- Isztimér Formation2
- Ghost Creek Formation · Maude Group1
- Oust Formation1
- Lower Marly Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Calliphylloceras bicicolae7 sites
- Juraphyllites (Harpophylloceras) eximius6 sites
- Partschiceras striatocostatum6 sites
- Calaiceras calais5 sites
- Juraphyllites5 sites
- Juraphyllites libertus5 sites
- Phylloceras5 sites
- Amaltheus stokesi4 sites
- Metaderoceras gemmellaroi4 sites
- Phylloceras hebertinum4 sites
- Zetoceras zetes4 sites
- Ammonoidea3 sites
- Fanninoceras (Fanninoceras) fannini3 sites
- Fanninoceras (Fanninoceras) kunae3 sites
- Fuciniceras cornacaldense3 sites
- Harpoceratinae3 sites
- Liparoceras (Becheiceras) gallicum3 sites
- Lytoceras fimbriatum3 sites
- Partschiceras3 sites
- Phylloceratoidea3 sites
- Androgynoceras (Oistoceras) figulinum2 sites
- Arieticeras2 sites
- Audaxlytoceras audax2 sites
- Audaxlytoceras grandonense2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei, 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
13 references- Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia5
- Les ammonites du Sinémurien et du Pliensbachien inférieur de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie)3
- Les ammonites du Domérien de la montagne du Bakony (Hongrie)3
- Les ammonites du Carixien des Causses (France)3
- Lower Pliensbachian ammonites from the Folded Middle Atlas, south of Taza (Morocco)1
- Unlocking the secrets of the Early Jurassic of North Africa: first record of pseudoplanktonic crinoid Seirocrinus (Crinoidea, Pentacrinidae) from Morocco and Algeria1
- Les ammonites du Pliensbachien du jebel Bou Rharraf (Haut Atlas oriental, Maroc)1
- Ammoniten aus dem Pliensbachium (Carixium und Domerium) von Südamerika1
- Austroalpine Liassic ammonites from Vorarlberg (Austria, Northern Calcareous Alps)1
- Les ammonites du jurassique inférieur et moyen de la dorsal tunisienne1
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia1
- Liassic ammonites from the central and eastern Pontides (Ankara and Kelkit areas, Turkey)1
Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Liparoceras (Becheiceras) bechei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kurt Meiers
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itLiparoceras (Becheiceras) through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1821)