Metacoceras sangamonense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetacocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Metacoceras sangamonense 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Pottawatomie Formation2
- Vanport Formation · Allegheny Group1
- Douglas Formation1
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The named rock units Metacoceras sangamonense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metacoceras sangamonense and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Metacoceras sangamonense and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Acanthopecten carboniferous4 sites
- Aviculopecten occidentalis3 sites
- Beecheria bovidens3 sites
- Composita argentea3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus3 sites
- Lima retifera3 sites
- Monopteria longispina3 sites
- Nautilus planovolvis3 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus3 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis3 sites
- Polypora3 sites
- Pseudomonotis tenuistriatus3 sites
- Septopora biserialis3 sites
- Acharax parallela2 sites
- Ameura missouriensis2 sites
- Archaeocidaris2 sites
- Avicula sulcata2 sites
- Aviculopecten mccoyi2 sites
- Bellerophon marconanus2 sites
- Cypricardinia carbonaria2 sites
- Cyrtoceras2 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus2 sites
- Edmondia nebrascensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Metacoceras sangamonense, 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
2 references- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.3
- A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania1
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 Metacoceras sangamonense 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 Metacoceras sangamonense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metacoceras sangamonense 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.
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What may have been alongside itMetacoceras through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1860)