Worthoceras

Worthoceras

Elder, William · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
OtoscaphitinaePBDB
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 106.3 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 34 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 34 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 4 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106.3 Mya93.9 Mya113.7 Mya89.3 Mya

34 occurrences of Worthoceras 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

34 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

13 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.97°N, 110.84°WMancos Shale — 35.96°N, 110.89°WMancos Shale — 34.83°N, 108.97°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.28°N, 104.72°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.93°N, 105.28°WSpringhill — 40.95°S, 175.67°ESpringhill — 40.88°S, 176.97°ETropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.21°N, 111.17°WBaddeckenstedt — 52.28°N, 7.45°EMarnes bleues — 44.33°N, 5.17°EWangarlu Mudstone — 12.38°S, 130.60°EOjinaga — 30.80°N, 105.28°WDölzschen — 51.19°N, 13.55°EChispa Summit — 30.71°N, 104.77°WGreenhorn — 32.76°N, 108.67°WColorado — 32.70°N, 108.37°WBritton — 32.54°N, 97.07°W

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The named rock units Worthoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Worthoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Worthoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Worthoceras, 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

15 references

Each of the 34 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Worthoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Elder, William
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOtoscaphitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adkins 1928