Teichertoceras

No picture of Teichertoceras 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 Teichertoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WestonoceratidaePBDB
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 least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 11 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesDevonian473–470 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449.6 Mya410.62 Mya473 Mya398 Mya

11 occurrences of Teichertoceras 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

11 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

4 formations

Dunleith — 43.00°N, 91.00°WCummingsville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WProsser Limestone — 45.00°N, 93.00°WSinelnikov Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°E

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The named rock units Teichertoceras 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.

Teichertoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Teichertoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Teichertoceras, 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

Each of the 11 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

Media content0

No picture of Teichertoceras 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 Teichertoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Teichertoceras 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 itWestonoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1933