Wrightoceras

Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.

Wrightoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudotissotidaePBDB
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 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 28 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 6 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 6 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89.8 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

28 occurrences of Wrightoceras 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

28 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

Conor — 6.57°S, 78.73°WEze-Aku — 6.42°N, 7.80°EEze-Aku — 6.00°N, 7.47°ENatih — 22.33°N, 57.33°EMancos Shale — 35.29°N, 107.09°WMancos Shale — 35.25°N, 107.00°WChispa Summit — 31.06°N, 105.25°WOjinaga — 30.80°N, 105.28°WLa Luna — 9.27°N, 68.77°WAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°ECotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCoñor — 7.16°S, 78.51°WPierre Shale — 40.06°N, 106.39°WAkrabou — 31.92°N, 4.88°WLa Frontera — 5.30°N, 73.82°W

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The named rock units Wrightoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Wrightoceras and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Wrightoceras, 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

17 references

Each of the 28 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. 5 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 Wrightoceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Wrightoceras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPseudotissotidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reyment 1954)