Schistoceras

Schistoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchistoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 55 of 57 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 57 occurrencesPermian308–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 4 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 8 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 8 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 8 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 8 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 8 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303.7 Mya290.1 Mya307.5 Mya282.8 Mya

57 occurrences of Schistoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

57 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

10 formations

Graham — 32.53°N, 98.87°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.60°WGraham — 31.80°N, 99.10°WGraham — 31.39°N, 99.36°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.29°N, 98.08°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.15°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WGaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WGaptank — 30.50°N, 103.00°WGaptank — 30.40°N, 102.97°WCass Limestone — 37.08°N, 96.12°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.14°WGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WBelle Plains — 32.40°N, 99.44°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.83°WCoffeyville — 36.34°N, 95.83°WConemaugh — 40.67°N, 80.89°WNellie Bly — 36.15°N, 96.25°W

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The named rock units Schistoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Schistoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Schistoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Schistoceras, 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

11 references

Each of the 57 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 content2

Picture of Schistoceras

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3D model

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

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What may have been alongside itSchistoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884