Melvilloceras rotaii

No picture of Melvilloceras rotaii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melvilloceras rotaii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelvillocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 315.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.9 Mya314.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Melvilloceras rotaii on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 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

1 formation

Mospyne — 48.22°N, 39.30°E

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The named rock units Melvilloceras rotaii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Melvilloceras rotaii and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Melvilloceras rotaii and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Melvilloceras rotaii, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Melvilloceras rotaii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melvilloceras rotaii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itMelvilloceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Popov 1979)