Actinoceras lesperancei
No picture of Actinoceras lesperancei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Actinoceras lesperancei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 440.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Actinoceras lesperancei on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician67%
- Silurian33%
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
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The named rock units Actinoceras lesperancei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinoceras lesperancei and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Actinoceras lesperancei and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Bryozoa1 site
- Discosorus infelix1 site
- Heliolitidae1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
- Virgiana mayvillensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Actinoceras lesperancei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Actinoceras lesperancei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Actinoceras lesperancei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinoceras lesperancei 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 itActinoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holland and Copper 2008