Diestoceras breviconum
No picture of Diestoceras breviconum 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 Diestoceras breviconum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiestocerasPBDB
- 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 most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Diestoceras breviconum 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- 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
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The named rock units Diestoceras breviconum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diestoceras breviconum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diestoceras breviconum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Actinomena1 site
- Anisopleurella anceps1 site
- Ascocerida1 site
- Billingsites1 site
- Bimuria1 site
- Charactoceras cinereum1 site
- Chonetoidea radiatula1 site
- Christiania portlocki1 site
- Cremnorthis1 site
- Cyclospira nana1 site
- Cyclospira perplexa1 site
- Dalmanella testudinaria transversa1 site
- Diambonia discuneata1 site
- Dicoelosia simulata1 site
- Diestoceras inaequiseptum1 site
- Discosorida1 site
- Dolerorthis intercostata1 site
- Endoceras perannulatum1 site
- Eopholidostrophia portlocki1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Eoplectodonta (Kozlowskites) nuntius1 site
- Faberoceras subarctuatum1 site
- Glypthorthis cf. maritima1 site
- Glyptomeninae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diestoceras breviconum, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Diestoceras breviconum 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 Diestoceras breviconum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diestoceras breviconum 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 itDiestoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Portlock 1843)