Laphamoceras scofieldi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaphamocerasPBDB
- 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 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Laphamoceras scofieldi 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
2 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
- Tyrone Limestone Formation · High Bridge Group1
- Decorah Formation1
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The named rock units Laphamoceras scofieldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Laphamoceras scofieldi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Laphamoceras scofieldi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis2 sites
- Pterotheca expansa2 sites
- Actinoceras altopontense1 site
- Actinoceras kentuckiense1 site
- Amblytochiton incomptus1 site
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Archinacella patelliformis1 site
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger1 site
- Beloitoceras huronense1 site
- Bucania halli1 site
- Bumastus trentonensis1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Carinaropsis cymbula1 site
- Carinaropsis minima1 site
- Cartersoceras popei1 site
- Cartersoceras shideleri1 site
- Cataschisma latiangularis1 site
- Cataschisma typa1 site
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus1 site
- Cleionychia1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Ctenodonta auburnensis1 site
- Ctenodonta nasuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Laphamoceras scofieldi, 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
2 references- Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio1
- The fauna of the residuary Auburn chert of Lincoln County, Missouri1
Each of the 2 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 Laphamoceras scofieldi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Laphamoceras scofieldi 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 itLaphamoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1932