Stearoceras rotundatum
No picture of Stearoceras rotundatum 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 Stearoceras rotundatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StearocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Stearoceras rotundatum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Stearoceras rotundatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stearoceras rotundatum and its relatives
PermianWhere Stearoceras rotundatum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Stearoceras sanandreasense7 sites
- Domatoceras bradyi5 sites
- Domatoceras floweri2 sites
- Metacoceras unklesbayi2 sites
- Stearoceras milleri2 sites
- Tainoceras schellbachi2 sites
- Cymatochiton kaibabensis1 site
- Domatoceras1 site
- Domatoceras walteri1 site
- Metacoceras1 site
- Novoameura mckeei1 site
- Parapenascoceras aberrans1 site
- Penascoceras northropi1 site
- Pseudorthoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Stearoceras rotundatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Permian nautiloids from western United States5
- Permian nautiloids from the San Andres Formation, southern and western New Mexico3
- American Permian nautiloids1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Stearoceras rotundatum 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 Stearoceras rotundatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stearoceras rotundatum 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.
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What may have been alongside itStearoceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller and Unklesbay 1942)