Metapeltoceras baylei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Peltoceras (Metapeltoceras)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Metapeltoceras baylei on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Metapeltoceras baylei and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Metapeltoceras baylei and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Brightia salvadori3 sites
- Campylites secula3 sites
- Lunuloceras lunula3 sites
- Oppelia3 sites
- Bonarellia bicostata2 sites
- Brightia brighti2 sites
- Erymnocerites argoviensis2 sites
- Erymnocerites greppini2 sites
- Euaspidoceras ferrugineum2 sites
- Kosmoceras spinosum2 sites
- Parapeltoceras oblongum2 sites
- Peltoceras trifidum2 sites
- Pseudopeltoceras leckenbyi2 sites
- Rollieria freii2 sites
- Ammonites coronatum1 site
- Bonarellia1 site
- Bonarellia nodulosa1 site
- Brightia sveva1 site
- Collotia1 site
- Collotia colloti1 site
- Collotia frickensis1 site
- Collotites collotiformis1 site
- Collotites petitclerci1 site
- Cosmoceras duncani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Metapeltoceras baylei, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Metapeltoceras baylei 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 Metapeltoceras baylei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Metapeltoceras baylei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPeltoceras (Metapeltoceras) through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Prieser 1937)