Charactoceras cinereum
No picture of Charactoceras cinereum 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 Charactoceras cinereum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CharactocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Charactoceras cinereum 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- 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 Charactoceras cinereum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Charactoceras cinereum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Charactoceras cinereum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Gunnarella corrugatella2 sites
- ? Pterineida indet.1 site
- Actinomena1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Anisopleurella anceps1 site
- Arjamannia turrita1 site
- Ascocerida1 site
- Billingsites1 site
- Bimuria1 site
- Campylorthis discreta1 site
- Chonetoidea radiatula1 site
- Christiania portlocki1 site
- Colpomya1 site
- Concavodonta1 site
- Corallidomus1 site
- Cremnorthis1 site
- Cyclospira nana1 site
- Cyclospira perplexa1 site
- Cymbularia alatus1 site
- Dalmanella testudinaria transversa1 site
- Deceptrix1 site
- Diambonia discuneata1 site
- Dicoelosia simulata1 site
- Diestoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Charactoceras cinereum, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Charactoceras cinereum 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 Charactoceras cinereum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Charactoceras cinereum 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 itCharactoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blake 1882)