Cyptendoceras richardsoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyptendocerasPBDB
- 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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cyptendoceras richardsoni 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- 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
- Scenic Drive Formation · El Paso Group1
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The named rock units Cyptendoceras richardsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyptendoceras richardsoni and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyptendoceras richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Catoraphiceras1 site
- Rioceras dartoni1 site
- Rioceras tubulare1 site
- Rioceras wellsi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyptendoceras richardsoni, 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 referenceEach 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 Cyptendoceras richardsoni 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 Cyptendoceras richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyptendoceras richardsoni 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 itCyptendoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1964