Pseudohaploceras
Pseudohaploceras is a genus of desmosceratid ammonites from the Early Cretaceous; Valanginian to Albian epochs.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PuzosiinaePBDB
- 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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
111 occurrences of Pseudohaploceras 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
111 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
15 formations
- La Peña Formation12
- Les Graous Formation12
- Donji Milanovac Formation5
- Cumburindio Formation4
- Todai Formation4
- Clansayes Formation3
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The named rock units Pseudohaploceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudohaploceras and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Pseudohaploceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
216 taxa- Heteroceras12 sites
- Cheloniceras crassum10 sites
- Aconeceras nisum8 sites
- Anahamulina8 sites
- Ancyloceras (Kutatissites)7 sites
- Dufrenoyia7 sites
- Dufrenoyia furcata7 sites
- Toxoceratoides rochi7 sites
- Acanthohoplites6 sites
- Cheloniceras6 sites
- Colombiceras6 sites
- Deshayesites6 sites
- Hypophylloceras6 sites
- Macroscaphites striatisulcatus6 sites
- Colombiceras spathi5 sites
- Martelites5 sites
- Ammonitoceras lahuseni4 sites
- Burckhardtites nazasensis4 sites
- Colombiceras crassicostatum4 sites
- Dufrenoyia justinae4 sites
- Heteroceras baylei4 sites
- Lytoceras4 sites
- Phylloceras4 sites
- Procheloniceras albrechtiaustriae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Pseudohaploceras, 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
26 references- Biostratigraphic events at the Barremian/Aptian boundary in the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain36
- The lower Aptian ammonites of the Les Ferres Aptian Basin (Lower Cretaceous, Southeast of France). Part I: Introduction and biostratigraphy13
- Ammonite biostratigraphy of two stratigraphic sections of the La Peña Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) in Nuevo León State, northeast Mexico12
- Algunas faunas cretácias de Zacatecas, Durango y Guerrero9
- Ammonoids (Desmoceratoidea and Silesitoidea) from the Late Barremian of Boljetin, eastern Serbia5
- Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonite fauna of the Todai Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Japan4
- Lower Aptian Ammonitina Pseudohaploceras liptoviense (Zeuschner) in the Cumburindio Formation (Southwestern Mexico)4
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico4
- Geologia de la Peninsula de la Guajira3
- Xerticeras gen. nov., a new genus of micromorphic heteromorph ammonite (Ancyloceratina, Ancyloceratidae)from the lower Aptian of Spain2
- New records of Mathoceras Casey (Deshayesitidae, Ammonoidea) from the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) of Mexico and Hungary: Biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications2
- Sedimentological and paleoecological aspects of the Aptian transgressive event of Sierra del Rosario, Durango, northeast Mexico2
Each of the 111 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. 14 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Pseudohaploceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudohaploceras 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPuzosiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1900