Mericoceras

Mericoceras is an extinct nautiloid cephalopod that lived during the Late Devonian and possible as early as the Silurian.

No picture of Mericoceras 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 Mericoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthoceridaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Orthocerida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Silurian — about 6 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 7 occurrencesDevonian433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430.6 Mya419.62 Mya433.4 Mya412.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Mericoceras on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

Fluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.53°E

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The named rock units Mericoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mericoceras and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mericoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mericoceras, 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

Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mericoceras 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 Mericoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthocerida through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.