Nephriticeras

Nephriticeras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NephriticeratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Barrandeocerida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences394 Mya381.8 Mya

10 occurrences of Nephriticeras on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 formations

Silica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.33°WLudlowville — 42.82°N, 75.53°W

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

Nephriticeras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Nephriticeras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Nephriticeras, 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

3 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 Nephriticeras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nephriticeras 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 itNephriticeratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884