Chepuloceras inelegans

No picture of Chepuloceras inelegans 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 Chepuloceras inelegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChepulocerasPBDB
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 9.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Chepuloceras inelegans 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

1 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.

Chepuloceras inelegans and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Chepuloceras inelegans and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chepuloceras inelegans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Chepuloceras inelegans 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 Chepuloceras inelegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chepuloceras inelegans 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Unklesbay and Young 1956