Orygoceras

Orygoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlanorbidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae

Time the record covers

At least 459 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 50 occurrencesOrdovician — about 6 of 50 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 50 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 50 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences493–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 44 occurrences471.3 Mya11.63 Mya493 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Orygoceras on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

50 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

Fort Cassin — 44.21°N, 73.25°WFort Cassin — 44.60°N, 73.44°WMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°E

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The named rock units Orygoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orygoceras and its relatives

Miocene

Where Orygoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Orygoceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 50 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 Orygoceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Orygoceras 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 itPlanorbidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brusina 1882