Augustoceras vallandighami
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AugustocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Oncocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Oncocerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Augustoceras vallandighami 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Augustoceras vallandighami 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.
Augustoceras vallandighami and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Augustoceras vallandighami and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Hallopora9 sites
- Orthorhynchula linneyi9 sites
- Escharopora8 sites
- Hebertella sinuata8 sites
- Heterotrypa frondosa8 sites
- Paupospira bowdeni8 sites
- Prismostylus fibratum8 sites
- Zygospira modesta8 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra7 sites
- Atactoporella7 sites
- Constellaria7 sites
- Dekayella7 sites
- Hebertella frankfortensis7 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis7 sites
- Heterotrypa7 sites
- Homotrypa7 sites
- Homotrypa curvata7 sites
- Platystrophia7 sites
- Platystrophia laticosta7 sites
- Platystrophia ponderosa7 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata7 sites
- Ambonychia6 sites
- Byssonychia intermedius6 sites
- Cyrtoceras6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Augustoceras vallandighami, 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
2 references- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia6
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee3
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Augustoceras vallandighami was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Augustoceras vallandighami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Augustoceras vallandighami 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 itAugustoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1874)