Strandoceras sphinx
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StrandocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Discosorida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Discosorida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Discosorida
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Strandoceras sphinx 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Boda Limestone Formation1
- Jonstorp Formation1
- Herøya Formation1
- Moe Formation · Lyckholm Group1
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The named rock units Strandoceras sphinx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Strandoceras sphinx and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Strandoceras sphinx and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
259 taxa- Discoceras roemeri3 sites
- Discoceras antiquissima2 sites
- Eobronteus laticauda2 sites
- Geisonoceras wegelini2 sites
- Isorthoceras heroyense2 sites
- Kiaeroceras heroyense2 sites
- Spyroceras clathratoannulatum2 sites
- Streptelasma primum2 sites
- Acidaspis1 site
- Acidaspis evoluta1 site
- Ambonychinia corrugata1 site
- Ambonychinia elegans1 site
- Ambonychinia excelsa1 site
- Ambonychinia extumida1 site
- Ambonychinia intermedia1 site
- Ambonychinia kallholniensis1 site
- Ambonychinia levis1 site
- Ambonychinia pediculata1 site
- Ambonychinia quadrangulata1 site
- Ambonychinia radiata1 site
- Ambonychinia rhomboidalis1 site
- Ambonychinia striata1 site
- Ambonychinia subiniqua1 site
- Ambonychinia undulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Strandoceras sphinx, 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- The cephalopods of Boda Limestone, Late Ordovocian, of Dalarna, Sweden2
- Die Cephalopoden-Fauna der Lyckholm-Stufe des Ostbaltikums2
- The Upper Ordovician Cephalopods of the Oslo Area1
Each of the 5 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 Strandoceras sphinx was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Strandoceras sphinx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Strandoceras sphinx 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 itStrandoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1858