Arctoceras oebergi

Öberg Per Erik Valdemar · CC BY 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
- ArctocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Arctoceras oebergi on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
6 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
- Vikinghogda Formation · Sassendalen Group2
- Kongressfjellet Formation · Sassendalen Group2
- Blind Fiord Formation1
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The named rock units Arctoceras oebergi 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.
Arctoceras oebergi and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Arctoceras oebergi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Arctoprionites nodosus3 sites
- Arctoceras blomstrandi2 sites
- Juvenites spathi2 sites
- Peribositria mimer2 sites
- Arctoprionites1 site
- Arctoprionites tyrrelli1 site
- Confusionella loczyi1 site
- Czekanowskites1 site
- Danubites1 site
- Ellesmerella aranea1 site
- Epiceltites gentii1 site
- Flemingites flemingianus1 site
- Glyptophiceras sinuatum1 site
- Gurleyites freboldi1 site
- Hemiprionites garwoodi1 site
- Lyrocephaliscus euri1 site
- Meekoceras1 site
- Meekoceras gracilitatis1 site
- Olenikites1 site
- Olenikites spiniplicatus1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Peribositria backlundi1 site
- Posidonia1 site
- Prosphingites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arctoceras oebergi, 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
6 references- The main features of the Geological structure of Barentsøya1
- Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago1
- Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias1
- Fazielle Verhältnisse des Mesozoikums im Eisfjordgbiet Spitzbergens1
- Die Altersstellung des Fischhorizontes, des Grippianiveaus und des unteren Saurierhorizontes in Spitzbergen1
- Arktische Triasfaunen. Beiträge zur palaeontologischen Charakteristik der arktisch-pacifischen Triasprovinz1
Each of the 6 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 Arctoceras oebergi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Öberg Per Erik Valdemar
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itArctoceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mojsisovics 1886)