Tornoceras contractum
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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 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 375.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Tornoceras contractum 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
10 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tornoceras contractum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tornoceras contractum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tornoceras contractum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Tornoceras typum4 sites
- Lobobactrites3 sites
- Manticoceras ammon3 sites
- Manticoceras lamed3 sites
- Ponticeras keyserlingi3 sites
- Timanites angustus3 sites
- Manticoceras2 sites
- Nordiceras timanicum2 sites
- Ponticeras bisulcatum2 sites
- Ponticeras tschernyschewi2 sites
- Acanthoclymenia1 site
- Acanthoclymenia genundewa1 site
- Acanthoclymenia neapolitana1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Aulatornoceras1 site
- Gogoceras nicolli1 site
- Lobotornoceras strangulatum1 site
- Manticoceras insulare1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Ponticeras1 site
- Ponticeras discoidale1 site
- Ponticeras regale1 site
- Ponticeras uchtense1 site
- Probeloceras lutheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tornoceras contractum, 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
4 references- Revision of ammonoid biostratigraphy in the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of the Southern Timan (northeast Russian Platform)5
- Devonian goniatite biostratigraphy and timing of facies movements in the Frasnian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia3
- On Frasnian ammonoids of the New Siberian Islands1
- Upper Devonian ammonoids from the Manticoceras zone, Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia1
Each of the 10 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 Tornoceras contractum 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 Tornoceras contractum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tornoceras contractum 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 itTornoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Glenister 1958)