Mandaloceras

Mandaloceras

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 10 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438.6 Mya422.7 Mya441 Mya419.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Mandaloceras 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

10 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

Inwood — 53.17°N, 99.28°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EPozary — 49.15°N, 13.57°EJupiter — 49.19°N, 61.73°WPridoli — 50.02°N, 14.38°E

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

Mandaloceras and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mandaloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mandaloceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 Mandaloceras

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 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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What may have been alongside itMandaloceratidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt in Zittel 1900