Tornoceras compressum
No picture of Tornoceras compressum 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 Tornoceras compressum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TornocerasPBDB
- 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 most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 379 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tornoceras compressum 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
2 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
1 formation
- Genundewa Formation · Genesee Group2
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The named rock units Tornoceras compressum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tornoceras compressum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tornoceras compressum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acanthoclymenia genundewa2 sites
- Aglaoglypta koeneni1 site
- Dictyotomaria capillaria1 site
- Glyptotomaria genundewa1 site
- Koenenites fasciculatus1 site
- Koenenites styliophilus kilfoylei1 site
- Macrochilina pygmaea1 site
- Macrochilina seneca1 site
- Manticoceras nodifer1 site
- Palaeozygopleura noe1 site
- Phragmosphaera natator1 site
- Protocalyptraea styliophila1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tornoceras compressum, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tornoceras compressum 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 Tornoceras compressum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tornoceras compressum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTornoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarke 1899)