Romaniceras

Romaniceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuomphaloceratinaePBDB
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 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 84 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 84 of 84 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 11 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 11 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 11 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 9 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya83.1 Mya

84 occurrences of Romaniceras on record, most of them in the Late 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

84 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

24 formations

Mancos Shale — 35.87°N, 106.91°WMancos Shale — 35.28°N, 106.96°WMancos Shale — 35.98°N, 106.90°WMancos Shale — 35.72°N, 106.93°WMancos Shale — 35.58°N, 106.97°WMancos Shale — 35.47°N, 106.88°WMancos Shale — 35.29°N, 107.09°WMancos Shale — 35.28°N, 106.94°WIndidura — 29.35°N, 101.05°WIndidura — 21.93°N, 102.17°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.11°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.21°WBoquillas — 29.50°N, 105.00°WCarlile Shale — 36.36°N, 104.52°WCarlile Shale — 36.32°N, 104.45°WCarlile Shale — 36.34°N, 104.46°WCarlile Shale — 36.52°N, 104.30°WSaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.04°N, 142.16°EKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°EOguwa — 33.25°N, 132.75°ECal Trumfo — 42.17°N, 0.90°EMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.50°EBykov — 50.16°N, 155.26°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.85°S, 37.17°WMassillan — 44.24°N, 4.75°ELa Luna — 10.07°N, 72.60°WOdukpani — 5.21°N, 8.22°EChim — 6.32°S, 143.38°EAkrabou — 31.92°N, 4.88°WIeru — 5.12°S, 141.07°EWadi Daya — 34.03°N, 5.41°WHornillatorre — 42.97°N, 3.69°WSidney Island — 48.61°N, 123.29°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.55°WVenado — 38.51°N, 122.11°WSan Rafael — 5.55°N, 73.06°W

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The named rock units Romaniceras 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.

Romaniceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Romaniceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Romaniceras, 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

33 references

Each of the 84 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. 21 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 content3

Picture of Romaniceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Romaniceras deverioides · LACM:IP:LACMIP 10741.3

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itEuomphaloceratinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1923)