Megasphaeroceras

No picture of Megasphaeroceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Megasphaeroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OtoitidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 18 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 3 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175.2 Mya161 Mya

18 occurrences of Megasphaeroceras 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

18 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

4 formations

Twin Creek Limestone — 43.41°N, 111.79°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.87°N, 111.17°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.61°N, 110.89°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.41°N, 111.04°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.17°N, 110.83°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.08°N, 111.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.85°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.00°N, 110.85°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.94°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.92°N, 111.25°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.51°N, 111.30°WSierra Fraga — 26.67°S, 69.52°WTorcazas — 23.12°S, 69.00°WLos Molles — 37.46°S, 70.47°W

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The named rock units Megasphaeroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megasphaeroceras and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Megasphaeroceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 18 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 Megasphaeroceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Megasphaeroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megasphaeroceras 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 itOtoitidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Imlay 1961