Tegoceras mosense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TegocerasPBDB
- 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 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Tegoceras mosense on record, most of them in the Early 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
13 occurrences- Early 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
3 formations
- Hilo Formation · Villeta Group9
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
- Mzinene Formation2
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The named rock units Tegoceras mosense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tegoceras mosense and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tegoceras mosense and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum3 sites
- Desmoceras inflatum3 sites
- Hamites3 sites
- Acompsoceras2 sites
- Birostrina2 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum2 sites
- Lyelliceras pseudolyelli2 sites
- Mariella2 sites
- Aioloceras besairiei1 site
- Anadesmoceras1 site
- Birostrina coptensis1 site
- Cleoniceras1 site
- Cleoniceras (Neosaynella) inornatum1 site
- Cucullaea glabra1 site
- Discocyathus fittoni1 site
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum1 site
- Entolium orbiculare1 site
- Euphylloceras1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Hamites praegibbosus1 site
- indet. sp. n. sp.1 site
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni1 site
- Otohoplites1 site
- Otohoplites raulinianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tegoceras mosense, 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- Chronology, relative sea-level history and a new sequence stratigraphic model for basinal Cretaceous facies of Colombia9
- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Lyelliceratinae Spath, 19212
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand2
Each of the 13 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
Media content0
No picture of Tegoceras mosense 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 Tegoceras mosense, 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 itTegoceras through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1841)