Metalegoceras bosterense
No picture of Metalegoceras bosterense 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 Metalegoceras bosterense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetalegocerasPBDB
- 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 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Metalegoceras bosterense on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
13 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Metalegoceras bosterense 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.
Metalegoceras bosterense and its relatives
PermianWhere Metalegoceras bosterense and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Agathiceras mediterraneum11 sites
- Parapronorites rectus10 sites
- Kargalites basarensis5 sites
- Pamiropopanoceras meridionale5 sites
- Thalassoceras mediterraneum5 sites
- Almites pavlovi4 sites
- Daraelites pamiricus4 sites
- Metalegoceras toumanskayae4 sites
- Metaperrinites obsoletus4 sites
- Cardiella parva3 sites
- Eothinites solitus3 sites
- Metalegoceras pamiricum3 sites
- Pamiritella vinogradovi3 sites
- Pamirites clinei3 sites
- Parasicanites meridionalis3 sites
- Propinacoceras asiaticum3 sites
- Propinacoceras toumanskayae3 sites
- Suakites compositus3 sites
- Bamyaniceras multilobatum2 sites
- Cardiella gracia2 sites
- Eolegoceras murgabense2 sites
- Eothinites convexus2 sites
- Mapirites latumbilicatus2 sites
- Medlicottia basarensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Metalegoceras bosterense, 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 referenceEach of the 13 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
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No picture of Metalegoceras bosterense 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 Metalegoceras bosterense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metalegoceras bosterense 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 itMetalegoceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leonova 1989