Maternoceras retorquatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MaternocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
- 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 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Maternoceras retorquatum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Maternoceras retorquatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maternoceras retorquatum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Maternoceras retorquatum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Trimanticoceras cinctum3 sites
- Beloceras tenuistriatum2 sites
- Linguatornoceras clausum2 sites
- Manticoceras guppyi2 sites
- Manticoceras rugosum2 sites
- Sphaeromanticoceras bullatum2 sites
- Beloceras sagittarium1 site
- Clauseniceras expectatum1 site
- Manticoceras1 site
- Manticoceras cordatum1 site
- Manticoceras lamed1 site
- Serramanticoceras serratum1 site
- Tornoceras (Tornoceras) clausum1 site
- Virginoceras erraticum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Maternoceras retorquatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Devonian goniatite biostratigraphy and timing of facies movements in the Frasnian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia2
- Upper Devonian ammonoids from the Manticoceras zone, Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia2
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Maternoceras retorquatum 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 Maternoceras retorquatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maternoceras retorquatum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itMaternoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Glenister 1958)