Pleuroceras spinatum

Pleuroceras spinatum is a species of ammonite from the lower Jurassic, upper Pliensbachian period. Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivore.

Pleuroceras spinatum

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PleurocerasPBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 35 of 35 occurrencesEarly Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–184 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193.4 Mya183.7 Mya

35 occurrences of Pleuroceras spinatum on record, most of them in the Early 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

35 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

5 formations

Amaltheenton — 49.55°N, 11.13°EAmaltheenton — 49.35°N, 11.36°ECamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WScalpa Sandstone — 57.38°N, 6.00°WBarahona — 41.31°N, 0.81°W

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The named rock units Pleuroceras spinatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuroceras spinatum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pleuroceras spinatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Pleuroceras spinatum, 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

13 references

Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Pleuroceras spinatum

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPleuroceras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bruguière 1789)