Lytoceras aulaeum
No picture of Lytoceras aulaeum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lytoceras aulaeum itself, so it was not used. 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 Lytoceras aulaeum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LytocerasPBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Lytoceras aulaeum on record, most of them in the Early 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
15 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Lytoceras aulaeum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lytoceras aulaeum and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Lytoceras aulaeum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Hertleinites aguila5 sites
- Plicatula variata4 sites
- Phyllopachyceras infundibulum3 sites
- Potamides diadema3 sites
- Homolsomites oregonensis2 sites
- Hoploparia riddlensis2 sites
- Hypophylloceras onoense2 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana2 sites
- Neocraspedites giganteus2 sites
- Paladmete perforata2 sites
- Phyllopachyceras umpquanum2 sites
- Pinna pontica2 sites
- Pleuromya papyracea2 sites
- Simbirskites broadi2 sites
- Simbirskites lecontei2 sites
- Tessarolax gabbi2 sites
- Thurmanniceras jenkinsi2 sites
- Thurmanniceras stippi2 sites
- Venus collinium2 sites
- Wellsia packardi2 sites
- Acrioceras hamlini1 site
- Acrioceras vespertinum1 site
- Acroteuthis shastensis1 site
- Anahamulina wilcoxensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Lytoceras aulaeum, 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- Ammonites of Early Cretaceous age (Valanginian and Hauterivian) from the Pacific Coast states7
- Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic units of Northern California3
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon3
- Hoploparia riddlensis, a new species of lobster (Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Days Creek Formation (Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous) of Oregon2
Each of the 15 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 Lytoceras aulaeum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lytoceras aulaeum itself, so it was not used.
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 Lytoceras aulaeum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lytoceras aulaeum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLytoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1938