Arkonoceras
No picture of Arkonoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arkonoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MichelinoceratinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Orthocerida
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 383.4 Mya.
5 occurrences of Arkonoceras 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Arkonoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arkonoceras and its relatives
DevonianWhere Arkonoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Akrosphaerorthoceras4 sites
- Hemicosmorthoceras semimbricatum3 sites
- Michelinoceras michelini3 sites
- Orthoceras submoniliforme3 sites
- Orthocycloceras3 sites
- Sphaerorthoceras3 sites
- Anaspyroceras2 sites
- Columenoceras2 sites
- Mericoceras2 sites
- Michelinoceras2 sites
- Murchisoniceras2 sites
- Parakionoceras originale2 sites
- Parasphaerorthoceras2 sites
- Plagiostomoceras2 sites
- ? Webinelloidea sp.1 site
- Acravicula1 site
- Adiagoceras1 site
- Amoenophyllites1 site
- Anarcestes1 site
- Anarcestes latissimus1 site
- Aphyctoceras1 site
- Aptychopsis prima1 site
- Arionoceras canonicum1 site
- Arionoceras capillosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Arkonoceras, 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
3 references- Nautiloid assemblages from middle-late Silurian of southwestern Sardinia: a proposal3
- Early and Middle Devonian cephalopods from Hamar Laghdad (Tafilalt, Morocco) and remarks on epicoles and cameral deposits1
- Lower Devonian orthocone cephalopods from Iglesiente and Sulcis regions (southwestern Sardinia)1
Each of the 5 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 Arkonoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arkonoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arkonoceras was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itMichelinoceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1945