Pseudorthoceratidae

Pseudorthoceratidae is an extinct family of actively mobile aquatic carnivorous cephalopods belonging to the subclass Orthoceratoidea. ITt is endemic to what would be North America, Asia, and Europe during the Silurian living from 460.5 to 251 Ma, existing for approximately 209.5 million years.

Pseudorthoceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudorthoceridaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 195 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 476 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 7 of 476 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 39 of 476 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 318 of 476 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 111 of 476 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 476 occurrences461–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–433 Mya — about 3 occurrences433–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–412 Mya — about 11 occurrences412–404 Mya — about 12 occurrences404–397 Mya — about 5 occurrences397–390 Mya — about 5 occurrences390–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences376–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–362 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–355 Mya — about 6 occurrences355–347 Mya — about 5 occurrences347–340 Mya — about 5 occurrences340–333 Mya — about 24 occurrences333–326 Mya — about 53 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 65 occurrences319–312 Mya — about 22 occurrences312–305 Mya — about 66 occurrences305–298 Mya — about 73 occurrences298–291 Mya — about 9 occurrences291–283 Mya — about 11 occurrences283–276 Mya — about 28 occurrences276–269 Mya — about 14 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 9 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 22 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 17 occurrences449.6 Mya254.14 Mya461 Mya248 Mya

476 occurrences of Pseudorthoceratidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

476 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

127 formations

Graham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.14°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 35.62°N, 96.02°WWewoka — 34.76°N, 96.57°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.34°WHale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WHale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WHale — 36.02°N, 93.87°WHale — 35.91°N, 94.17°WHale — 35.91°N, 93.94°WHale — 36.17°N, 93.23°WFayetteville — 35.87°N, 93.96°WFayetteville — 36.06°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 35.90°N, 92.62°WFayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.17°WFayetteville — 36.04°N, 92.76°WFayetteville — 36.24°N, 93.37°WFayetteville — 35.74°N, 91.82°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WRuddell — 35.74°N, 91.64°WRuddell — 35.77°N, 91.69°WRuddell — 35.81°N, 91.54°WRuddell — 35.73°N, 91.55°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.10°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WBloyd Shale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WBloyd Shale — 35.77°N, 94.38°WBloyd Shale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WBloyd Shale — 36.13°N, 93.35°WBloyd Shale — 35.89°N, 94.17°WBloyd Shale — 35.79°N, 94.24°WWitts Springs — 36.15°N, 93.00°WWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WWitts Springs — 35.53°N, 92.00°WWitts Springs — 36.23°N, 93.31°WAkhura — 39.60°N, 45.15°EAkhura — 39.56°N, 45.21°EAkhura — 38.97°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°ECaney — 34.69°N, 96.64°WCaney — 34.39°N, 96.54°WCaney — 34.67°N, 95.73°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 91.90°WPitkin — 35.69°N, 91.73°WLoray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.31°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 97.96°WRockford Limestone — 38.88°N, 86.04°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WRockford Limestone — 40.83°N, 87.25°WHueco — 32.37°N, 106.88°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.90°WDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WDog Creek — 34.37°N, 100.02°WBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBlaine — 34.19°N, 99.85°WAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.52°EImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.77°N, 92.93°WRest Spring — 36.78°N, 117.46°WKufeng — 31.50°N, 117.79°EKufeng — 31.74°N, 117.77°EKufeng — 32.14°N, 119.07°EBloyd — 36.06°N, 94.15°WBloyd — 35.92°N, 94.14°WBloyd — 35.86°N, 94.37°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°W

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The named rock units Pseudorthoceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudorthoceratidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pseudorthoceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,995 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 394 sites for Pseudorthoceratidae, and this reads 240 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

110 references

Each of the 476 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. 98 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 Pseudorthoceratidae

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
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CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pseudorthoceratidae 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

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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. Flower and Caster 1935