Vaginoceras oppletum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VaginocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Endocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Endocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Endocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Vaginoceras oppletum 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
4 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
3 formations
- Valcour Formation · Chazyan Group2
- Day Point Formation1
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Vaginoceras oppletum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vaginoceras oppletum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Vaginoceras oppletum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Valcouroceras tenuiseptum3 sites
- Pojetaconcha beecheri2 sites
- Stereospyroceras clintoni2 sites
- Ambonychiopsis curvata1 site
- Bucania sulcatina1 site
- Cameroceras curvatum1 site
- Cleionychia montrealensis1 site
- Ctenodonta peracuta1 site
- Endoceras hudsoni1 site
- Endoceras magister1 site
- Glyptomena distans1 site
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa1 site
- Gonioceras chaziense1 site
- Lingulella columba1 site
- Modiolopsis exanimis1 site
- Modiolopsis fabaformis1 site
- Onychoplecia longirostris1 site
- Oonoceras1 site
- Ormoceras champlainense1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Palaeoglossa belli1 site
- Perkinsoceras foerstei1 site
- Plectoceras1 site
- Pliomerops canadensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Vaginoceras oppletum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 Vaginoceras oppletum 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 Vaginoceras oppletum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vaginoceras oppletum 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 itVaginoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruedemann 1906