Zittelloceras

Zittelloceras

Kröger, Björn · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OncoceratidaePBDB
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 least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 475.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 46 of 46 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 46 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471.3 Mya448.8 Mya475.9 Mya442.5 Mya

46 occurrences of Zittelloceras 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

46 occurrences

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

16 formations

Platteville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WGrand Detour — 43.00°N, 91.00°WQuimbys Mill — 43.00°N, 91.00°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMifflin — 43.00°N, 91.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 45.00°N, 93.00°WGlenwood — 45.00°N, 93.00°WPecatonica — 43.00°N, 91.00°WWah Wah — 38.85°N, 113.46°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLourdes — 48.70°N, 59.00°WLowville — 45.37°N, 75.72°WCrown Point — 44.88°N, 73.45°WKagawong — 45.90°N, 82.25°WSouth Threave — 55.25°N, 4.85°W

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The named rock units Zittelloceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Zittelloceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Zittelloceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Zittelloceras, 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

9 references

Each of the 46 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 content1

Picture of Zittelloceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kröger, Björn
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Zittelloceras 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 itOncoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884