Sciponoceras

Sciponoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BaculitidaePBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 172 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 165 of 172 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 14 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 26 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 26 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 26 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 26 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 16 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 14 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 14 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100.5 Mya89.8 Mya114 Mya71.4 Mya

172 occurrences of Sciponoceras 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

172 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

50 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.04°N, 111.04°WMancos Shale — 35.96°N, 110.89°WMancos Shale — 34.44°N, 107.47°WMancos Shale — 34.83°N, 108.97°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WMancos Shale — 32.50°N, 107.70°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.29°N, 112.69°WTropic Shale — 37.21°N, 111.17°WLadd — 33.74°N, 117.62°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WCalcaires de Fiz — 46.04°N, 6.62°ECalcaires de Fiz — 45.98°N, 6.79°ECalcaires de Fiz — 46.09°N, 6.79°EDölzschen — 50.98°N, 13.73°EDölzschen — 51.19°N, 13.55°EBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.56°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 61.84°N, 147.41°WMatanuska — 61.80°N, 147.70°WFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 50.73°N, 0.20°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WBeer Head Limestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WBeer Head Limestone — 50.77°N, 2.57°WLower Chalk — 51.83°N, 5.10°WLower Chalk — 50.83°N, 2.60°WWhisky Bay — 64.17°S, 57.75°WWhisky Bay — 64.07°S, 58.42°WGreenhorn — 45.02°N, 104.30°WGreenhorn — 37.47°N, 104.11°WGreenhorn — 32.76°N, 108.67°WPanoche — 37.21°N, 121.22°WCraie de Rouen — 48.60°N, 0.63°ECraie de Rouen — 49.08°N, 0.50°EBrochterbeck — 52.22°N, 7.75°EMoonkinu — 11.80°S, 130.40°EHikagenosawa — 44.00°N, 143.00°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.22°N, 5.53°EUnnamed Vocontian — 43.73°N, 6.90°ECraie glauconieuse — 48.84°N, 0.13°ECraie glauconieuse — 49.08°N, 0.50°EDel Rio Clay — 31.44°N, 97.41°WDel Rio Clay — 31.48°N, 97.29°WStrehlen — 51.16°N, 13.59°EStrehlen — 51.03°N, 13.77°ESenneville — 49.78°N, 0.42°E

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The named rock units Sciponoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sciponoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

899 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 171 sites for Sciponoceras, 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

66 references

Each of the 172 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. 54 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 Sciponoceras

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itBaculitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1894