Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum
Lamarck · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- SphaeromanticocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Crassotornoceras crassum3 sites
- Manticoceras3 sites
- Manticoceras lamed3 sites
- Sphaeromanticoceras affine3 sites
- Archoceras varicosum2 sites
- Aulatornoceras eifliense2 sites
- Aulatornoceras frenklerae2 sites
- Linguatornoceras clausum2 sites
- Linguatornoceras linguum2 sites
- Manticoceras cordatum2 sites
- Serramanticoceras serratum2 sites
- Tornoceras2 sites
- Tornoceras aequilobum2 sites
- Tornoceras holwilli2 sites
- Acanthoclymenia1 site
- Archoceras1 site
- Bactrites1 site
- Carinoceras1 site
- Crassotornoceras1 site
- Crassotornoceras hetzeneggeri1 site
- Crassotornoceras nudum1 site
- Lobotornoceras ausavense1 site
- Maternoceras1 site
- Retrotornoceras juxi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum, 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 references- Upper Frasnian Tornoceratidae (Ammonoidea) from the Sand Formation (Bergisch Gladbach‑Pafrath Syncline, Rhenish Massif)3
- Devonian goniatite biostratigraphy and timing of facies movements in the Frasnian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Lamarck
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Sphaeromanticoceras orbiculum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSphaeromanticoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beyrich 1837)