Schroederoceras

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrocholitidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Tarphycerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.9 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Schroederoceras 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
5 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 Schroederoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Schroederoceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Schroederoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Spyroceras clathratoannulatum3 sites
- Palmanella sp.2 sites
- Polygonograptus2 sites
- Sowerbyella2 sites
- Cameroceras hasta1 site
- Charactoceras estonicum1 site
- Cyrtogomphoceras troedssoni1 site
- Dianulites grandis1 site
- Diestoceras stensioei1 site
- Discoceras antiquissima1 site
- Dowlingoceras piersalense1 site
- Estonia cf. schmidti1 site
- Geisonoceras wegelini1 site
- Halysites1 site
- Kiaeroceras frognoyense1 site
- Leptaena1 site
- Luhala varai1 site
- Lyckholmoceras estoniae1 site
- Nicolella1 site
- Palaeodawsonocerina senckenbergi1 site
- Pararaphistoma1 site
- Piersaloceras gageli1 site
- Spyroceras textumarenaceum1 site
- Strandoceras sphinx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Schroederoceras, 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
2 referencesEach of the 5 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 Schroederoceras
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTrocholitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1894