Sageceras walteri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SagecerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 8.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya.
24 occurrences of Sageceras walteri on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
24 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.
Found in
8 formations
- Prida Formation · Star Peak Group6
- Gutenstein Formation1
- Marmolata Formation1
- Hallstatt Formation1
- Esino Formation1
- Wetterstein Formation1
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The named rock units Sageceras walteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sageceras walteri and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Sageceras walteri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
348 taxa- Monophyllites wengensis8 sites
- Trematoceras elegans7 sites
- Norites gondola6 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae4 sites
- Gymnotoceras rotelliformis4 sites
- Leiophyllites suessi4 sites
- Proarcestes bramantei4 sites
- Sturia sansovinii4 sites
- Arthaberites alexandrae3 sites
- Atractites3 sites
- Daonella americana3 sites
- Discoptychites megalodiscus3 sites
- Discoptychites seebachi3 sites
- Longobardites parvus3 sites
- Megaceratites subnodosus3 sites
- Paranautilus smithi3 sites
- Ptychites oppeli3 sites
- Ptychites opulentus3 sites
- Anagymnites2 sites
- Atractites boeckhi2 sites
- Balatonites gemmatus2 sites
- Beyrichites maturus2 sites
- Bulogites multinodosus2 sites
- Calliconites nevadensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Sageceras walteri, 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
9 references- Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias7
- Middle Triassic Molluscan Fossils of Biostratigraphic Significance from the Humboldt Range, Northwestern Nevada5
- New Middle and Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) Ammonoid Faunas From Northwestern Nevada(USA): Taxonomy and Biochronology3
- Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz3
- Lower Anisian ammonoids from the northern Humboldt Range (northwestern Nevada, USA) and their bearing upon the Lower-Middle Triassic boundary2
- Lithofacies palaeogeography and biostratigraphy of the lowermost horizons of the Middle Triassic Hallstatt Limestones (Argolis Peninsula, Greece)1
- The Ladinian ammonoids from the Calcare di Esino of Val Parina (Bergamasc Alps, Northern Italy). Part. 11
- Die Cephalopodenfauna der Reiflinger Kalke1
- Geologische und palaeontologische Studien uber die Marmolata1
Each of the 24 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 Sageceras walteri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Sageceras walteri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itSageceras through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1882