Foersteoceras

Doryteuthis opalescens (S.S.Berry, 1911), a relative of Foersteoceras — not Foersteoceras itself

Not Foersteoceras. This is Doryteuthis opalescens (S.S.Berry, 1911), a relative.

tdimpsey · 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
BrevicoceratidaePBDB
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 3.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Foersteoceras on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Akron — 42.85°N, 78.80°W

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The named rock units Foersteoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Foersteoceras and its relatives

Silurian

Where Foersteoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Foersteoceras, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Doryteuthis opalescens (S.S.Berry, 1911)

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

No 3D scan of Foersteoceras 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 itBrevicoceratidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruedemann 1925