Sichuanoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SichuanoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Orthocerida
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
12 occurrences of Sichuanoceras on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Ningqiang Formation4
- Xiushan Formation2
- Fentou Formation1
- Kuanti Formation1
- Upper Kaochaitien Formation1
- Upper Wengxiang Formation1
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The named rock units Sichuanoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sichuanoceras and its relatives
SilurianWhere Sichuanoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Favosites6 sites
- Subalveolites5 sites
- Kailia4 sites
- Parahelenites4 sites
- Actinodochmioceras3 sites
- Atrypoidea3 sites
- Eushantungoceras3 sites
- Heliolites3 sites
- Howellella3 sites
- Kailiceras3 sites
- Multisolenia3 sites
- Nalivkinia3 sites
- Neosichuanoceras3 sites
- Nucleospira3 sites
- Orthodochmioceras3 sites
- Septatrypa3 sites
- Striispirifer3 sites
- Tabularia3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Coronocephalus2 sites
- Encrinuroides2 sites
- Eospirifer2 sites
- Falsicatenipora2 sites
- Harpidium (Isovella)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Sichuanoceras, 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
4 references- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China5
- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)4
- Silurian nautiloid faunas of central and southwestern China2
- Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco)1
Each of the 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sichuanoceras 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 Sichuanoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sichuanoceras 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 itSichuanoceratidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang 1962