Protocycloceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtocycloceratidaePBDB
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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 481.7 Mya to 457.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 454 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 104 occurrencesOrdovician — about 104 of 104 occurrencesOrdovician488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 5 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 5 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 5 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 5 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 6 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 9 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 9 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 10 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 10 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 10 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences481.7 Mya457.2 Mya487.5 Mya453.3 Mya

104 occurrences of Protocycloceras 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

104 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

36 formations

Dawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EFort Cassin — 44.21°N, 73.25°WFort Cassin — 44.77°N, 73.49°WFort Cassin — 44.60°N, 73.44°WFort Cassin — 44.01°N, 73.60°WFort Cassin — 43.78°N, 73.64°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.21°N, 4.78°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.23°N, 5.91°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.21°N, 6.02°WCroisaphuill — 58.52°N, 4.79°WCroisaphuill — 58.60°N, 4.83°WNaylor Ledge — 45.04°N, 73.07°WCatoche — 48.55°N, 59.25°WCatoche — 48.51°N, 59.22°WCatoche — 48.54°N, 58.74°WCatoche — 51.63°N, 55.90°WMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°ERasstupet Limestones — 76.92°N, 16.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 117.00°EFengdong'gun — 28.00°N, 105.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 119.00°EFengfeng — 36.00°N, 114.00°ERochdale — 41.44°N, 74.36°WYijianfang — 40.17°N, 78.92°EYijianfang — 40.13°N, 78.83°ESmithville — 36.08°N, 91.30°WSwan Peak — 41.55°N, 111.96°WZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°EFengdonggang — 29.00°N, 107.00°EDachengsi — 30.00°N, 103.00°EGuniutan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EShinianpan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WCapillas — 24.00°S, 65.00°W

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The named rock units Protocycloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protocycloceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Protocycloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

465 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Protocycloceras, 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

30 references

Each of the 104 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. 18 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

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No picture of Protocycloceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protocycloceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protocycloceras 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1900)