Diestoceras

Diestoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiestoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Oncocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Oncocerida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 455 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 107 of 110 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 110 occurrencesSilurian472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 5 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 15 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 14 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 14 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 8 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences455 Mya440.5 Mya472 Mya437.9 Mya

110 occurrences of Diestoceras 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

110 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

46 formations

Whitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.58°N, 84.75°WWhitewater — 39.63°N, 84.65°WDunleith — 43.00°N, 91.00°WSaluda — 39.48°N, 84.95°WSaluda — 39.40°N, 85.28°WSaluda — 38.78°N, 85.36°WSaluda — 39.52°N, 84.73°WSaluda — 39.58°N, 84.76°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WKilley Bridge — 54.60°N, 6.87°WGrande Coupe — 48.53°N, 64.25°WVaureal — 49.00°N, 64.00°WVaureal — 49.75°N, 63.50°WVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.67°N, 81.90°WBønsnes — 66.77°N, 13.47°EBønsnes — 60.06°N, 10.21°EAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.81°WAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.73°WSolvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.18°EPlatteville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WGrand Detour — 43.00°N, 91.00°WNachusa — 43.00°N, 91.00°WQuimbys Mill — 43.00°N, 91.00°WRed River — 50.00°N, 100.00°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WLyckholm — 59.00°N, 25.00°ELyckholm — 59.05°N, 24.03°EBull Fork — 39.35°N, 85.21°WBull Fork — 39.39°N, 83.92°WTetreauville — 45.69°N, 73.65°WBardahessiagh — 54.60°N, 6.93°WJupiter — 49.19°N, 61.73°WJupiter — 49.24°N, 62.24°WSouth Threave — 55.25°N, 4.85°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°W

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The named rock units Diestoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diestoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Diestoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,008 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Diestoceras, 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

22 references

Each of the 110 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. 10 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Diestoceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diestoceras 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 itDiestoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1924