Oonoceras

Oonoceras is an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods included in the nautiloid order Oncocerida and the family Oncoceratidae from the Middle Ordovician to Middle Silurian of North America and Europe, arbitrarily included in the slender Oncoceratidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OonoceratidaePBDB
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 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 16 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 24 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459.7 Mya393.47 Mya473 Mya381 Mya

24 occurrences of Oonoceras 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

24 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

12 formations

Whitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.53°EValcour — 44.88°N, 73.34°WValcour — 44.87°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EBad Cache Rapids — 68.88°N, 82.30°WGrande Coupe — 48.53°N, 64.25°WKandle/Väo — 58.88°N, 22.67°EFolkeslunda Limestone — 56.73°N, 16.72°EWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.48°WPozary — 49.15°N, 13.57°E

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The named rock units Oonoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oonoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Oonoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Oonoceras, 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 24 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

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No picture of Oonoceras 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 Oonoceras, 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

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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. Hyatt 1884