Sinoceras

Sinoceras is an extinct genus of nautiloids from China included in the family Orthoceratidae that lived from the middle Ordovician until the Devonian. The type species, S. chinense, was originally described as "Orthoceras chinense," but then was promoted by Shimizu and Obata to its own genus, Sinoceras, in 1935.

Sinoceras

Sinoceras.jpg : Christopher, Tania and Isabelle Luna derivative work: Kev min § · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MichelinoceratinaePBDB
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 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 455 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 44 of 44 occurrencesOrdovician469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 4 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 6 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya455 Mya468.5 Mya449 Mya

44 occurrences of Sinoceras 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

44 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

14 formations

Baota — 33.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 109.00°EBaota — 28.00°N, 107.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 107.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 105.00°EBaota — 28.00°N, 109.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 108.00°EBaota — 28.00°N, 105.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 106.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 110.00°EBaota — 29.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 30.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 117.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 108.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 119.00°EGuniutan — 29.00°N, 110.00°EGuniutan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EGuniutan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EYanwashan — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYanwashan — 28.00°N, 118.00°EYanwashan — 29.00°N, 119.00°EChedao — 37.00°N, 107.00°EChedao — 36.00°N, 107.00°EDachao — 27.00°N, 100.00°EShizipu — 28.00°N, 109.00°ETangshan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°ETaoqipo — 35.00°N, 109.00°EXilinkebo — 42.00°N, 101.00°EQierQieKe — 43.00°N, 90.00°ESaerGanTag — 41.00°N, 79.00°EKanKing — 41.00°N, 79.00°EJiaChun — 29.00°N, 87.00°E

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

Sinoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sinoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Sinoceras, 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

16 references

Each of the 44 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. 4 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sinoceras

Credit
Sinoceras.jpg : Christopher, Tania and Isabelle Luna derivative work: Kev min §
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sinoceras 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Shimizu et al. 1935