Richardsonoceras gerhardi

No picture of Richardsonoceras gerhardi 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 Richardsonoceras gerhardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RichardsonocerasPBDB
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 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.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465.9 Mya461.4 Mya472.6 Mya459.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Richardsonoceras gerhardi 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

3 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

Gillberga — 57.35°N, 17.05°EGillberga — 57.31°N, 17.00°EFolkeslunda Limestone — 56.72°N, 16.71°E

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The named rock units Richardsonoceras gerhardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Richardsonoceras gerhardi and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Richardsonoceras gerhardi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Richardsonoceras gerhardi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Richardsonoceras gerhardi 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 Richardsonoceras gerhardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Richardsonoceras gerhardi 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 itRichardsonoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kröger et al. 2009