Bassleroceras perseus
No picture of Bassleroceras perseus 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 Bassleroceras perseus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BasslerocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bassleroceras perseus 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
2 formations
- Rochdale Formation · Beekmantown Group1
- Naylor Ledge Formation1
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The named rock units Bassleroceras perseus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bassleroceras perseus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bassleroceras perseus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Pionoceras pomponium2 sites
- Protocycloceras xerxes2 sites
- Anrangeroceras repens1 site
- Aphetoceras attenuatum1 site
- Aphetoceras farnsworthi1 site
- Campbelloceras mcgerriglei1 site
- Centrotarphyceras imperator1 site
- Cyclostomiceras cassinense1 site
- Ectocycloceras cataline1 site
- Ectocycloceras cato1 site
- Endoceras tityrus1 site
- Kirkoceras missisquoi1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Pionoceras vokesi1 site
- Protocycloceras abnorme1 site
- Protocycloceras catulus1 site
- Protocycloceras geronticum1 site
- Protocycloceras philipsburgense1 site
- Rhabdocycloceras affine1 site
- Suecoceras marcoui1 site
- Tarphyceras1 site
- Trocholitoceras juvenicostatum1 site
- Trocholitoceras latum1 site
- Trocholitoceras philipsburgense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bassleroceras perseus, 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- Onset of the Ordovician cephalopod radiation - evidence from the Rochdale Formation (middle Early Ordovician, Stairsian)in eastern New York1
- Cephalopoda of the Beekmantown and Chazy formations of the Champlain Basin1
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
Media content0
No picture of Bassleroceras perseus 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 Bassleroceras perseus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bassleroceras perseus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBassleroceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)