Westonoceras cornulum
No picture of Westonoceras cornulum 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 Westonoceras cornulum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WestonocerasPBDB
- 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 most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Westonoceras cornulum 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Westonoceras cornulum 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.
Westonoceras cornulum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Westonoceras cornulum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Actinoceras2 sites
- Allumettoceras2 sites
- Charactoceras2 sites
- Cyrtogomphoceras2 sites
- Diestoceras2 sites
- Endoceras baffinense2 sites
- Ephippiorthoceras dowlingi2 sites
- Kochoceras cuneiforme2 sites
- Spyroceras baffinense2 sites
- Westonoceras baffinense2 sites
- ? Leuorthoceras baffinense1 site
- Cheirocystella1 site
- Cyclendoceras1 site
- Cyrtorizoceras1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri canadensis1 site
- Discoceras1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Ephippiorthoceras1 site
- Floripatella humilis1 site
- Fusispira inflata1 site
- Fusispira subbrevis1 site
- Glyptocystites groenlandicus1 site
- Hormotoma minnesotensis1 site
- Hormotoma neglecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Westonoceras cornulum, 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
2 references- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island1
- On the Middle and Upper Ordovician faunas of northern Greenland1
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 Westonoceras cornulum 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 Westonoceras cornulum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Westonoceras cornulum 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 itWestonoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schuchert 1900)