Lambeoceras

Lambeoceras is an extinct genus of large actinocerids with a convexly lenticular cross section from Upper Ordovician-aged marine deposits of North America and the sole representative of the family Lambeoceratidae.

Lambeoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonioceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 45 of 45 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 45 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 10 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450.2 Mya – 449.2 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

45 occurrences of Lambeoceras 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

45 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

19 formations

Portage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.00°N, 81.67°WBad Cache Rapids — 69.23°N, 82.48°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.34°N, 82.37°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.67°N, 81.90°WWise Lake — 43.00°N, 91.00°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFremont — 38.00°N, 105.00°WFremont — 38.50°N, 105.17°WStewartville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WStewartville — 43.50°N, 94.00°WAmadjuak — 65.25°N, 73.17°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WCaution Creek — 57.97°N, 94.87°WCaution Creek — 58.55°N, 95.13°WRed River — 50.00°N, 100.00°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WSurprise Creek — 56.59°N, 93.87°WCape Calhoun — 80.08°N, 67.00°WBighorn — 44.00°N, 109.00°WWhitewood Limestone — 44.00°N, 103.00°WFoster Bay — 73.00°N, 78.00°WTetreauville — 45.60°N, 73.73°WUpham — 31.78°N, 106.48°WSecond Value — 32.57°N, 107.72°WLake Waswanipi Limestone — 49.47°N, 76.47°W

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The named rock units Lambeoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lambeoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lambeoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

354 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Lambeoceras, 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

14 references

Each of the 45 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Lambeoceras

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lambeoceras 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.

The description on this site

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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. Foerste 1917