Sciponoceras kossmati
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SciponocerasPBDB
- 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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Sciponoceras kossmati 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
3 occurrences- Late 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
1 formation
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group2
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The named rock units Sciponoceras kossmati has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sciponoceras kossmati and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sciponoceras kossmati and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Corbulidae2 sites
- Cymbophora2 sites
- Mytiloides opalensis2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Biplica isoplicata1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Calva (Egelicalva) spissa1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) ezoanum1 site
- Desmoceratidae1 site
- Eogunnarites1 site
- Eriphyla1 site
- Euomphaloceras septemseriatum1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glycymeris pacifica1 site
- Gnesioceramus cripsii1 site
- Hyphantoceras1 site
- Legumen1 site
- Lima1 site
- Lucinidae1 site
- Mammites1 site
- Margarites1 site
- Martesia1 site
- Meekia (Meekia) radiata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sciponoceras kossmati, 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
2 references- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results2
- Mesozoic and ? Tertiary rocks of Quatsino Sound, Vancouver Island, Bristish Columbia1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sciponoceras kossmati was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sciponoceras kossmati, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sciponoceras kossmati 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSciponoceras through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nowak 1908)