Cyclendoceras annulatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclendocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Endocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Endocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Endocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cyclendoceras annulatum 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
6 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
6 formations
- Glenwood Formation1
- Platteville Formation1
- Mifflin Formation1
- Grand Detour Formation1
- Nachusa Formation1
- Quimbys Mill Formation1
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The named rock units Cyclendoceras annulatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclendoceras annulatum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyclendoceras annulatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Actinoceras6 sites
- Allumettoceras6 sites
- Antiplectoceras6 sites
- Beloitoceras6 sites
- Beloitoceras pandion6 sites
- Chidleyenoceras6 sites
- Diestoceras6 sites
- Endoceras6 sites
- Endoceras proteiforme6 sites
- Gonioceras6 sites
- Loganoceras6 sites
- Metaspyroceras6 sites
- Michelinoceras6 sites
- Plectoceras6 sites
- Reedsoceras6 sites
- Spyroceras6 sites
- Tripteroceras6 sites
- Whitfieldoceras6 sites
- Beloitoceras huronense5 sites
- Cameroceras5 sites
- Centrocyrtoceras5 sites
- Deiroceras5 sites
- Fayettoceras5 sites
- Gorbyoceras5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyclendoceras annulatum, 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 6 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 Cyclendoceras annulatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cyclendoceras annulatum 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 itCyclendoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)