Paracrioceras
No picture of Paracrioceras 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 Paracrioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AncyloceratidaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 132.6 Mya and 121.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Paracrioceras on record, most of them in the Early 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
6 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Paracrioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paracrioceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Paracrioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Colchidites1 site
- Crioceratites emerici1 site
- Crioceratites leivaensis1 site
- Desmoceras difficile1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Heteroceras1 site
- Holcodiscus1 site
- Imerites1 site
- Imerites favrei1 site
- Karsteniceras multicostatum1 site
- Menuthiocrioceras1 site
- Pedioceras asymmetricum1 site
- Pedioceras caquesense1 site
- Pulchellia1 site
- Serpula1 site
- Spitidiscus1 site
- Subpulchellia1 site
- Toxancyloceras vandenheckii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Paracrioceras, 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
3 references- Geología del Área Vallenar-Domeyko, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 120: 64 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.0003
- Biofacies Characteristics of Lower Cretaceous Deposits of Georgia2
- New and less known Barremian-Albian Ammonites from Colombia1
Each of the 6 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 Paracrioceras 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 Paracrioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracrioceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAncyloceratidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.