Paralegoceras

Paralegoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchistoceratidaePBDB
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 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 17 of 19 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 19 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 4 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence294–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318.6 Mya259.857 Mya325 Mya253 Mya

19 occurrences of Paralegoceras 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

19 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

6 formations

Winslow — 35.63°N, 94.37°WWinslow — 35.78°N, 94.37°WWinslow — 36.07°N, 94.15°WWinslow — 35.80°N, 94.14°WWinslow — 35.66°N, 94.15°WWinslow — 35.69°N, 94.12°WSmithwick — 31.09°N, 98.52°WSmithwick — 31.13°N, 98.81°WSmithwick — 31.22°N, 99.15°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WAtoka — 35.59°N, 94.29°WAtoka — 35.08°N, 92.73°WWitts Springs — 35.63°N, 94.42°WWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°E

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The named rock units Paralegoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paralegoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Paralegoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Paralegoceras, 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

8 references

Each of the 19 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 content1

Picture of Paralegoceras

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Paralegoceras 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884