Kopaninoceras

No picture of Kopaninoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kopaninoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Orthocerida

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 22 occurrencesSilurian — about 14 of 22 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 22 occurrencesDevonian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–418 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence412–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–410 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432.9 Mya413.02 Mya443.8 Mya410 Mya

22 occurrences of Kopaninoceras 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

22 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

8 formations

Fluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.53°ELower Shiqipo — 28.15°N, 85.97°EScyphocrinites Limestone — 30.95°N, 4.05°WPraha — 50.02°N, 14.40°ELochkov — 49.98°N, 14.33°EProkop-Dvorce — 49.95°N, 14.10°EReporyje Limestone — 49.43°N, 13.88°EPozary — 49.15°N, 13.57°E

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The named rock units Kopaninoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kopaninoceras and its relatives

Silurian

Where Kopaninoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

151 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Kopaninoceras, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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 Kopaninoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kopaninoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kiselev 1969)