Olenekoceras

Olenekoceras is an ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower Triassic included in the ceratitid family Sibiritidae, once included in the Noritaceae but now in the Ceratitaceae.

No picture of Olenekoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Olenekoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SibiritidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 58 of 58 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 58 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 5 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 5 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 5 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences251.3 Mya246.5 Mya

58 occurrences of Olenekoceras on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

58 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

Pastanakhskaya/Ystannakhskaya — 72.85°N, 120.98°EZhitkov — 42.92°N, 132.30°EZhitkov — 43.03°N, 131.93°EZhitkov — 42.93°N, 131.92°EPastakh — 71.81°N, 127.24°EOsawa — 38.81°N, 141.55°E

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The named rock units Olenekoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olenekoceras and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Olenekoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Olenekoceras, 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

13 references

Each of the 58 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. 1 further reference is 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

Media content0

No picture of Olenekoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Olenekoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
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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.