Nigericeras gadeni
No picture of Nigericeras gadeni 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 Nigericeras gadeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NigericerasPBDB
- 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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Nigericeras gadeni on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
17 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Nigericeras gadeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nigericeras gadeni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nigericeras gadeni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Nigericeras jacqueti4 sites
- Metengonoceras dumbli3 sites
- Vascoceras cauvini3 sites
- Fikaites subtuberculatus2 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides2 sites
- Fikaites1 site
- Fikaites laffitei1 site
- Metoicoceras geslinianum1 site
- Paramammites1 site
- Pseudaspidoceras1 site
- Pseudovascoceras nigeriense1 site
- Vascoceras ellipticum1 site
- Vascoceras gamai1 site
- Vascoceras glabrum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Nigericeras gadeni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Les ammonites du Niger (Afrique occidentale) et la transgression Transsaharienne au cours du Cénomanien-Turonien8
- Les ammonites du Crétacé supérieur d'Ashaka, Nigéria: analyse taxonomique, ontogénétique, biostratigraphique et évolutive6
- Cenomanian-Turonian ammonite successions in the Tinrhert Basin (Southeastern Algeria): Revision and new data2
- Late Cenomanian-early Turonian ammonites from the Western Saharan Atlas (Algeria)1
Each of the 17 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
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No picture of Nigericeras gadeni 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 Nigericeras gadeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nigericeras gadeni 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 itNigericeras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chudeau 1909)