Teloceras

Teloceras

Jean.claude · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
StephanoceratinaePBDB
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 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171.4 Mya164.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Teloceras on record, most of them in the Middle 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

16 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

7 formations

Dhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.38°N, 45.35°EDhruma — 24.55°N, 46.13°EDhruma — 23.21°N, 46.43°EGuemgouma — 35.10°N, 9.71°EBedford Canyon — 33.79°N, 117.54°WSierra Fraga — 26.67°S, 69.52°WAsientos — 25.97°S, 69.18°WMontandón — 25.97°S, 69.18°WSnowshoe — 44.13°N, 118.98°W

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The named rock units Teloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Teloceras and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Teloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Teloceras, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 content2

Picture of Teloceras

Credit
Jean.claude
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itStephanoceratinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.