Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SporadocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
63 occurrences of Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) 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
63 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Paratornoceras lentiforme10 sites
- Tornoceras simplex9 sites
- Sporadoceras muensteri7 sites
- Polonoceras delepinei6 sites
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras)5 sites
- Dimeroceras petterae4 sites
- Lobotornoceras4 sites
- Pseudoclymenia dillensis4 sites
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculus3 sites
- Dimeroceras3 sites
- Dimeroceras padbergense3 sites
- Cyrtoclymenia2 sites
- Dimeroceras mamilliferum2 sites
- Polonoceras2 sites
- Prolobites delphinus2 sites
- Prolobites ellipticus2 sites
- Protornoceras2 sites
- Pseudoclymenia2 sites
- Pseudoclymenia pseudogoniatites2 sites
- Puncticeras ovatus2 sites
- Rectoclymenia2 sites
- Torleyoceras2 sites
- Cheiloceras1 site
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras), 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
5 references- Upper Devonian (Famennian) ammonoids from the Canning Basin, Western Australia51
- Devonskie ammonoidei I. Agoniatitidy6
- Some Late Devonian trilobites of China3
- Famennian ammonoids from New South Wales2
- Trilobites Phacopinae de la Formación Vidrieros, en el área de Gildar-Montó (León, NO de España) y su distribución estratigráfica1
Each of the 63 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) 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 Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) 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 itSporadoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884