Metophiceras demissum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 4 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.1 Mya248.6 Mya252.4 Mya246.5 Mya

18 occurrences of Metophiceras demissum on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

18 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

4 formations

Kangshare — 28.27°N, 86.97°EKangshare — 28.66°N, 85.82°EWordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WChocolate — 30.14°N, 80.98°EFeixianguan — 26.33°N, 105.93°E

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The named rock units Metophiceras demissum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metophiceras demissum and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Metophiceras demissum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Metophiceras demissum, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Metophiceras demissum 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 itMetophiceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppel 1862)