Cumberloceras elwayense

No picture of Cumberloceras elwayense 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 Cumberloceras elwayense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CumberlocerasPBDB
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.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician483–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483.9 Mya470.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Cumberloceras elwayense 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

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

Longview — 36.96°N, 81.97°WJefferson City — 37.64°N, 93.09°W

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

Cumberloceras elwayense and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cumberloceras elwayense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cumberloceras elwayense, 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 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Cumberloceras elwayense 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 Cumberloceras elwayense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cumberloceras elwayense 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 itCumberloceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich et al. 1943