Endoceras vaginatum

Endoceras vaginatum (Schlotheim, 1820), a relative of Endoceras vaginatum — not Endoceras vaginatum itself

Not Endoceras vaginatum. This is Endoceras vaginatum (Schlotheim, 1820), a relative — both are Proterocameroceratidae.

Kröger, Björn · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndocerasPBDB
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 least 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 465.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 472.1 Mya to 458 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 9 occurrencesOrdovician473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469.1 Mya465.9 Mya472.6 Mya457.5 Mya

9 occurrences of Endoceras vaginatum 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

9 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

4 formations

Loobu — 59.40°N, 24.56°ELoobu — 59.44°N, 27.31°EHuk — 59.78°N, 10.48°EHuk — 59.65°N, 9.75°EHolen — 58.61°N, 13.39°EHolen — 58.52°N, 15.45°EGillberga — 57.35°N, 17.05°E

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The named rock units Endoceras vaginatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Endoceras vaginatum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Endoceras vaginatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Endoceras vaginatum, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Endoceras vaginatum (Schlotheim, 1820)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kröger, Björn
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Endoceras vaginatum 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 itEndoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1820)