Centrocyrtoceras

Centrocyrtoceras

The Field Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BarrandeoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Barrandeocerida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 32 of 32 occurrencesOrdovician462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya449.5 Mya461.6 Mya444.7 Mya

32 occurrences of Centrocyrtoceras 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

32 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

20 formations

Dunleith — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGlenwood — 45.00°N, 93.00°WPlatteville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WDubuque — 45.00°N, 93.00°WDubuque — 43.00°N, 91.00°WPecatonica — 43.00°N, 91.00°WMifflin — 43.00°N, 91.00°WWise Lake — 43.00°N, 91.00°WDecorah Shale — 45.00°N, 93.00°WCummingsville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WProsser Limestone — 45.00°N, 93.00°WStewartville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WMaquoketa — 45.00°N, 93.00°WGrand Detour — 43.00°N, 91.00°WNachusa — 43.00°N, 91.00°WIon — 43.00°N, 91.00°WShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EGulang — 38.00°N, 102.00°EChikunsan — 41.38°N, 128.17°ESørbakken — 60.05°N, 10.18°EValcour — 44.87°N, 73.41°W

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The named rock units Centrocyrtoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Centrocyrtoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Centrocyrtoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

176 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Centrocyrtoceras, 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

6 references

Each of the 32 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Centrocyrtoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
The Field Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itBarrandeoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1933