Muensteroceras

Muensteroceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MuensteroceratidaePBDB
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 least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 326.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 62 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 62 of 62 occurrencesCarboniferous359–358 Mya — about 2 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 5 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 5 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 5 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 5 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 5 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 5 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 3 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 3 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 3 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–340 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 3 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 1 occurrence353.7 Mya330.3 Mya359.5 Mya326.3 Mya

62 occurrences of Muensteroceras 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

62 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

15 formations

Argiles de Teguentour — 26.51°N, 4.11°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.69°N, 3.80°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.62°N, 3.84°EArgiles de Teguentour — 26.59°N, 3.86°EFayetteville — 36.06°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 35.95°N, 93.98°WFayetteville — 35.90°N, 92.62°WFayetteville — 35.64°N, 91.51°WWalls Ferry — 35.83°N, 91.86°WBorden — 38.53°N, 83.48°WBorden — 38.14°N, 83.55°WBorden — 38.19°N, 83.52°WBorden — 38.16°N, 83.55°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WRockford Limestone — 38.88°N, 86.04°WOued Znaigui — 30.97°N, 4.02°WRangari limestone — 30.87°S, 150.50°ERangari limestone — 30.75°S, 150.36°EBoone — 37.00°N, 94.77°WBoone — 35.86°N, 91.82°WKugutyk — 50.75°N, 59.50°ESt. Joe — 36.64°N, 93.79°WBellavally — 54.42°N, 7.86°WArgiles de Timimoun Inférieur — 29.23°N, 0.09°EMilldale Limestone — 53.05°N, 1.69°WAlba — 42.84°N, 5.11°W

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The named rock units Muensteroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Muensteroceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Muensteroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Muensteroceras, 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

15 references

Each of the 62 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Muensteroceras

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Muensteroceras 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.

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What may have been alongside itMuensteroceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1884)