Diestoceras indianense
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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 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Diestoceras indianense 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Diestoceras indianense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diestoceras indianense and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Diestoceras indianense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Cyrtocerina2 sites
- Diestoceras eos2 sites
- Gorbyoceras gorbyi2 sites
- Kindleoceras2 sites
- Manitoulinoceras2 sites
- Treptoceras2 sites
- Anomalodonta gigantea1 site
- Armenoceras1 site
- Aulacera cylindrica1 site
- Aulacera plummeri1 site
- Beloitoceras amoenum1 site
- Beloitoceras bucheri1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- bryozoan indet.1 site
- Byssonychia richmondensis1 site
- Calapoecia huronensis1 site
- Charactoceras baeri1 site
- Cyrtoceras1 site
- Cyrtodontula1 site
- Diestoceras shideleri1 site
- Favistella1 site
- Fayettoceras1 site
- Gorbyoceras1 site
- Gorbyoceras hammelli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Diestoceras indianense, 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
3 references- Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio3
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region2
- The coral horizons and stratigraphy of the upper Richmond Group in Kentucky west of the Cincinnati Arch1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Diestoceras indianense 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 indianense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diestoceras indianense 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. (Miller and Faber 1894)