Simaspidoceras argobbae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SimaspidocerasPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Simaspidoceras argobbae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
6 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Simaspidoceras argobbae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Simaspidoceras argobbae and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Simaspidoceras argobbae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Laevaptychus3 sites
- Lithacoceras3 sites
- Lithacoceras mombassanum3 sites
- Pachysphinctes bathyplocus3 sites
- Pachysphinctes major3 sites
- Aspidoceras irregulare2 sites
- Aspidoceras longispinum2 sites
- Taramelliceras2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Actinostromaria hararina1 site
- Adelocoenia limbata1 site
- Allocoeniopsis luciensis1 site
- Ampullina coxi hararina1 site
- Arcomytilus laitmairensis1 site
- Aspidoceras1 site
- Aspidoceras somalicum1 site
- Astarte coxi1 site
- Aulacomyella farquharsoni1 site
- Belemnopsis littlei1 site
- Belemnopsis tanganensis1 site
- Brachyseris curtata1 site
- Burgundia corrugata1 site
- Calamophyllia ducreti1 site
- Calamophylliopsis compacta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Simaspidoceras argobbae, 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
3 references- The Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Wadi Hajar, southern Yemen4
- Fossili Giurassici dell'Harar (Africa Orientale): Brachiopodi, Lamellibranchi e Gasteropodi [Jurassic fossils from Harar (Eastern Africa): brachiopods, lamellibranchs and gastropods]1
- Beiträge zur Geologie des Somalilandes, 2. Teil. Oberer Jura [Contributions to the geology of Somaliland, Part 2. Upper Jurassic]1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Simaspidoceras argobbae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Simaspidoceras argobbae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itSimaspidoceras through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dacque 1905)