Sphaerorthoceras beatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaerorthocerasPBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sphaerorthoceras beatum 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sphaerorthoceras beatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphaerorthoceras beatum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Sphaerorthoceras beatum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Akrosphaerorthoceras4 sites
- Columenoceras4 sites
- Sphooceras truncatum4 sites
- Anaspyroceras3 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Cardiola3 sites
- Graptolithina3 sites
- Protophragmoceras3 sites
- Aptychopsis prima2 sites
- Arionoceras canonicum2 sites
- Arionoceras capillosum2 sites
- Bolbozoe2 sites
- Butovicella migrans2 sites
- Cryptocycloceras2 sites
- Dualina2 sites
- Entomozoe2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Geisonoceras2 sites
- Hemicosmorthoceras2 sites
- Mericoceras2 sites
- Merocycloceras2 sites
- Michelinoceras2 sites
- Michelinoceras michelini2 sites
- Modiolopsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphaerorthoceras beatum, 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
3 references- Upper Silurian and lowermost Devonian Bivalvia of Bohemian type from south-western Sardinia2
- Nautiloid assemblages from middle-late Silurian of southwestern Sardinia: a proposal1
- Upper Silurian cephalopods from southwestern Sardinia1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphaerorthoceras beatum 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 Sphaerorthoceras beatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphaerorthoceras beatum 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 itSphaerorthoceras through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ristedt 1968