Vascoceratidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthoceratoideaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
465 occurrences of Vascoceratidae on record, most of them in the Late 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
465 occurrences- Late 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
48 formations
- Rhoundjaïa Formation41
- Abu Qada Formation30
- Gongila Formation28
- Pindiga Formation26
- Cotinguiba Formation24
- La Luna Formation20
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The named rock units Vascoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 109 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vascoceratidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Vascoceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
613 taxa- Neoptychites cephalotus50 sites
- Vascoceras cauvini34 sites
- Vascoceras31 sites
- Vascoceras gamai25 sites
- Fagesia catinus24 sites
- Vascoceras proprium20 sites
- Mytiloides19 sites
- Fagesia17 sites
- Mammites nodosoides16 sites
- Thomasites gongilensis16 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras flexuosum15 sites
- Pseudotissotia nigeriensis15 sites
- Vascoceras durandi15 sites
- Fagesia tevesthensis13 sites
- Choffaticeras (Choffaticeras) segne12 sites
- Fagesia peroni12 sites
- Kamerunoceras turoniense12 sites
- Mytiloides mytiloides12 sites
- Pseudaspidoceras pseudonodosoides12 sites
- Vascoceras ellipticum11 sites
- Vascoceras globosum11 sites
- Costagyra olisiponensis10 sites
- Vascoceras bulbosum9 sites
- Vascoceras glabrum9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 247 sites for Vascoceratidae, and this reads 240 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
81 references- Lower Turonian ammonites from north-eastern Nigeria41
- Late Cenomanian-early Turonian ammonites from the Western Saharan Atlas (Algeria)37
- Turonian ammonite faunas from central Tunisia22
- Les ammonites du Crétacé supérieur d'Ashaka, Nigéria: analyse taxonomique, ontogénétique, biostratigraphique et évolutive22
- Renz, 198220
- Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico17
- Revision and new data on the Coniacian ammonite genus Hemitissotia in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)14
- Turonian inoceramids and biostratigraphy of the Sergipe Basin, northeastern Brazil: an integrated study of the Votorantim and Nassau quarries14
- The Cenomanian – Turonian boundary in the Gafsa-Chott area (southern part of central Tunisia): biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironments11
- Paleontology of the Greenhorn cylcothem (Cretaceous: late Cenomanian to middle Turonian) at Black Mesa, northeastern Arizona11
- The Geology of parts of Adamawa, Bauchi and Bornu Provinces in North-Eastern Nigeria11
- The ammonite genus Vascoceras Choffat, 1898 (family Vascoceratidae Douvillé, 1912) in the Iberian Trough, Spain10
Each of the 465 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. 69 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 content0
No picture of Vascoceratidae was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Vascoceratidae itself, so it was not used.
Wikidata and 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 Vascoceratidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vascoceratidae 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 itAcanthoceratoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douvillé 1912