Sphaerorthoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaerorthoceratidaePBDB
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 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 368.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 14 of 19 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 19 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–425 Mya — about 4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 3 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425 Mya372.15 Mya434 Mya367 Mya

19 occurrences of Sphaerorthoceras 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

19 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

Fluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.53°EFluminimaggiore — 39.50°N, 8.50°EKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°E

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The named rock units Sphaerorthoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaerorthoceras and its relatives

Silurian

Where Sphaerorthoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Sphaerorthoceras, 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

9 references

Each of the 19 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

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No picture of Sphaerorthoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphaerorthoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ristedt 1968