Nybyoceras bekkeri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NybyocerasPBDB
- 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 most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Nybyoceras bekkeri 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
1 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
1 formation
- Moe Formation · Lyckholm Group1
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The named rock units Nybyoceras bekkeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nybyoceras bekkeri and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nybyoceras bekkeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Brachytomaria baltica1 site
- Hormotoma insignis1 site
- Latitaenia rotelloidea1 site
- Nybyoceras balticum1 site
- Nybyoceras intermedium1 site
- Ormoceras heckeri1 site
- Strandoceras sphinx1 site
- Subulites subula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nybyoceras bekkeri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Nybyoceras bekkeri
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Nybyoceras bekkeri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itNybyoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Troedsson 1926