Tainoceras clydense

Kemp, A · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TainocerasPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tainoceras clydense 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tainoceras clydense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tainoceras clydense and its relatives
PermianWhere Tainoceras clydense and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Stearoceras conchiferum2 sites
- Amphiscapha (Cylicioscapha) texana1 site
- Aviculopecten occidentalis1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Cavellina nebrascensis1 site
- Cricotus crassidiscus1 site
- Diadectes molaris1 site
- Diadectes sideropelicus1 site
- Dimetrodon limbatus1 site
- Dimetrodon natalis1 site
- Embolobus ritillus1 site
- Eryops megacephalus1 site
- Euomphalus1 site
- Foordiceras1 site
- Knightoceras kempae1 site
- Liroceras globulare1 site
- Medlicottia copei1 site
- Metacoceras baylorense1 site
- Metalegoceras baylorense1 site
- Metamosaurus fossatus1 site
- Metaperrinites cumminsi1 site
- Murchisonia1 site
- Myalina permiana1 site
- Naticopsis remex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tainoceras clydense, 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
1 referenceEach 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
Media content1

Picture of Tainoceras clydense
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kemp, A
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itTainoceras through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Kemp 1947