Oncoceratidae

Oncoceratidae is a family of nautiloid cephalopods in the order Oncocerida established by Hyatt, 1884, that range from the Middle Ordovician to the Upper Silurian.

Oncoceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OncoceridaPBDB
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 least 135 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 335.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 330 of 360 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 28 of 360 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 360 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 360 occurrencesCarboniferous480–475 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences475–470 Mya — about 13 occurrences470–464 Mya — about 15 occurrences464–459 Mya — about 7 occurrences459–454 Mya — about 101 occurrences454–448 Mya — about 135 occurrences448–443 Mya — about 59 occurrences443–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–432 Mya — about 9 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 8 occurrences427–422 Mya — about 4 occurrences422–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–326 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences326–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471.3 Mya335.4 Mya480 Mya320 Mya

360 occurrences of Oncoceratidae 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

360 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

95 formations

Quimbys Mill — 43.00°N, 91.00°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WPlatteville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WGrand Detour — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGrand Detour — 42.55°N, 89.23°WGillberga — 57.35°N, 17.05°EGillberga — 57.31°N, 17.00°EGillberga — 57.23°N, 16.98°ENachusa — 43.00°N, 91.00°WMifflin — 43.00°N, 91.00°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EBoda Limestone — 61.12°N, 15.17°EDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WBaota — 29.00°N, 109.00°EBaota — 28.00°N, 107.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 107.00°EBaota — 27.00°N, 107.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 110.00°EGlenwood — 45.00°N, 93.00°WPecatonica — 43.00°N, 91.00°WDunleith — 43.00°N, 91.00°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WAmadjuak — 68.80°N, 81.24°WGrande Coupe — 48.53°N, 64.25°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMaquoketa — 45.00°N, 93.00°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WTyrone Limestone — 37.83°N, 84.55°WBenjamin Limestone — 42.00°S, 146.00°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.62°S, 146.37°EBenjamin Limestone — 42.58°S, 146.48°EArnestad — 60.00°N, 11.00°EArnestad — 60.09°N, 9.11°EArnestad — 60.08°N, 10.20°EFremont — 38.00°N, 105.00°WPortage Chute — 58.00°N, 95.00°WPortage Chute — 58.50°N, 95.00°W

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The named rock units Oncoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oncoceratidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Oncoceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 166 sites for Oncoceratidae, 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

77 references

Each of the 360 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. 65 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Oncoceratidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oncoceratidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOncocerida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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