Bactroceras avus
No picture of Bactroceras avus 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 Bactroceras avus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BactrocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Orthocerida
Time the record covers
At least 9.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 459.7 Mya.
2 occurrences of Bactroceras avus 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bactroceras avus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bactroceras avus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bactroceras avus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Abrograptus1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Bathmoceras1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Clinoceras1 site
- Cochlioceras1 site
- Dideroceras1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Echinosphaerites1 site
- Ellesmerocerida1 site
- Endocerida1 site
- Euprimites1 site
- Glyptograptus1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Lituites1 site
- Nileus1 site
- Protobactrites1 site
- Pseudoasaphus1 site
- Pseudobasilicus1 site
- Pseudoclimacograptus1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Rhynchorthoceras1 site
- Steusloffia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bactroceras avus, 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- The Lower and Middle Ordovician cephalopod faunas of England and Wales1
- Arenig cephalopods from Bolivia1
Each of the 2 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 Bactroceras avus 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 Bactroceras avus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bactroceras avus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBactroceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holm 1898