Phthanoncoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhthanoncoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Time the record covers
At least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 465.9 Mya to 461.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 472.1 Mya to 459.7 Mya.
4 occurrences of Phthanoncoceras 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Phthanoncoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phthanoncoceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phthanoncoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Cochlioceras2 sites
- Richardsonoceras gerhardi2 sites
- Adamsoceras holmi1 site
- Archigeisonoceras1 site
- Asaphus1 site
- Bathmoceras1 site
- Bentoceras proteus1 site
- Clinoceras1 site
- Clinoceras dens1 site
- Cochlioceras avus1 site
- Eccyliopterus alatus1 site
- Eccyliopterus declivis1 site
- Endoceras vaginatum1 site
- Estonioceras1 site
- Hedstroemoceras haelluddense1 site
- Kundoceras evansi1 site
- Lonchodomas1 site
- Microstomiceras holmi1 site
- Neumatoceras1 site
- Neumatoceras borense1 site
- Neumatoceras parviborense1 site
- Oelandoceras haelluddenense1 site
- Oonoceras priscum1 site
- Orthambonites calligramme1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Phthanoncoceras, 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
3 references- The Baltic nautiloids Cyrtoceras ellipticum Lossen 1860, C. priscum Eichwald 1861, and Orthoceras damesi Krause 18772
- Nautiloids with multiple paired muscle scars from Lower–Middle Ordovician of Baltoscandia1
- The Affinities of Early Oncocerid Nautiloids from the Lower Ordovician of Spitsbergen and Sweden1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Phthanoncoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phthanoncoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phthanoncoceras 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhthanoncoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans and King 1990