Metalegoceras kayi
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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 3.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 293.52 Mya and 290.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Metalegoceras kayi 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metalegoceras kayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metalegoceras kayi and its relatives
PermianWhere Metalegoceras kayi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acanthopecten1 site
- Ambozone obscura1 site
- Amplexus1 site
- Astartila tumida1 site
- Baylea perthensis1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bellerophon formani1 site
- Bradyospira talboti1 site
- Coronalosia irwinensis1 site
- Deltopecten1 site
- Dickinsartella elegantula1 site
- Etheripecten tenuicollis1 site
- Girtypecten ovalis1 site
- Leptomphalus1 site
- Macrochilina winensis1 site
- Modiolus koneckii1 site
- Myofossa (Ragozinia) amatopensis1 site
- Myonia1 site
- Naticopsis1 site
- Parallelodon bimodoliratus1 site
- Platyceras abundans1 site
- Praeundulomya subelongata1 site
- Pseudobaylea freneyensis1 site
- Pseudomyalina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metalegoceras kayi, 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 1 occurrence 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 kayi 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 Metalegoceras kayi, 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 itMetalegoceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glenister et al. 1973