Peltoceras kachhense

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeltocerasPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Peltoceras kachhense on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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.
Peltoceras kachhense and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Peltoceras kachhense and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Metapeltoceras diversiforme3 sites
- Peltoceras metamorphicum2 sites
- Belemnopsis kantkotensis1 site
- Calliphylloceras disputabile1 site
- Euaspidoceras1 site
- Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras)1 site
- Lima1 site
- Mayaites1 site
- Oxycerites hersilia1 site
- Peltoceras (Metapeltoceras)1 site
- Peltoceras (Peltoceras) athleta1 site
- Peltoceras bidens1 site
- Peltoceratoides1 site
- Peltoceratoides (Parawedekindia) arduennensis1 site
- Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) polymorphus1 site
- Putealiceras1 site
- Putealiceras trilineatum1 site
- Subgrossouvria gudjinsirensis1 site
- Sublunuloceras discoides1 site
- Sublunuloceras vendegiesi1 site
- Trimarginites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Peltoceras kachhense, 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
2 references- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires3
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule III (Oxfordian)1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Peltoceras kachhense
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wahl
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Peltoceras kachhense 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 itPeltoceras through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1931