Taramelliceras

Taramelliceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaramelliceratinaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 276 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 272 of 276 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 276 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 9 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 16 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 16 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 57 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 25 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 20 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 20 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 22 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 22 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 22 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 11 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 11 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 11 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya149.2 Mya165.9 Mya136.5 Mya

276 occurrences of Taramelliceras 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

276 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

22 formations

Marnes à Spongiaires — 46.72°N, 0.02°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.66°N, 0.13°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.31°N, 0.45°WMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.38°N, 0.05°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.77°N, 0.02°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.64°N, 0.17°ENaifa — 14.28°N, 48.55°ENaifa — 14.27°N, 48.57°ENaifa — 14.34°N, 48.39°EDietfurt — 49.95°N, 11.08°EBirmensdorf — 47.47°N, 8.04°ETheoi Marls — 46.40°N, 0.06°WTheoi Marls — 46.73°N, 0.00°WMörnsheim — 48.00°N, 10.00°ERosso Ammonitico — 38.00°N, 12.00°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EArimine — 36.47°N, 137.48°EGeisental — 48.75°N, 11.25°ESolnhofen — 48.00°N, 10.00°EL'Ammonitico Rosso Supérieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WSpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ETaman — 21.23°N, 98.87°WLotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EPálihálás Limestone — 47.72°N, 18.50°EImpressamergel — 48.21°N, 8.81°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EKatrol — 23.50°N, 70.50°EBirmensdorf Beds — 47.46°N, 8.24°E

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The named rock units Taramelliceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 186 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Taramelliceras and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Taramelliceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

861 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Taramelliceras, 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

39 references

Each of the 276 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. 27 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 Taramelliceras

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No 3D scan of Taramelliceras 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 itTaramelliceratinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Del Campana 1904