Tetrameroceras
No picture of Tetrameroceras 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 Tetrameroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemiphragmoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Oncocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Oncocerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tetrameroceras 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tetrameroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetrameroceras and its relatives
SilurianWhere Tetrameroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Arionoceras1 site
- Cardiolita conformis1 site
- Cyrtostropha monoliniformis1 site
- Dawsonocerina1 site
- Euryrizocerina1 site
- Geisonoceras1 site
- Hexameroceras1 site
- Kopanonoceras sp.1 site
- Kosovoceras nodosum1 site
- Kosovoceras sandbergeri1 site
- Lyecoceras1 site
- Oonoceras1 site
- Ophioceras1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Oxygonioceras1 site
- Plagiostomoceras1 site
- Prionopeltis archiaci1 site
- Sactoceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tetrameroceras, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- A Silurian oncocerid with preserved colour pattern and muscle scars (Nautiloidea)1
- Silurian System of West Virginia1
Each of the 2 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 Tetrameroceras 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 Tetrameroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tetrameroceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHemiphragmoceratidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884