Burenoceras
Burenoceras is a genus of small, even tiny, Gasconadian cyrtoconic ellesmeroceratids in which the phragmocone—the chambered portion—is shorter that the living chamber.
No picture of Burenoceras 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 Burenoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllesmeroceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
35 occurrences of Burenoceras 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
35 occurrences- Cambrian2%
- Ordovician98%
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
9 formations
- Gasconade Formation11
- Oneota Dolomite Formation5
- Ellenburger Formation5
- Tanyard Formation · Ellenburger Group4
- Oneota Formation4
- Chepultepec Formation · Knox Group2
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The named rock units Burenoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Burenoceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Burenoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Dakeoceras normale3 sites
- Sinuopea vera3 sites
- Clarkoceras2 sites
- Clarkoceras luthei2 sites
- Clarkoceras newtonwinchelli2 sites
- Dakeoceras subcurvatum2 sites
- Ellesmeroceras2 sites
- Gasconadia putilla2 sites
- Macluritella2 sites
- Ophileta2 sites
- Ophileta supraplana2 sites
- Proplina2 sites
- Schizopea typica2 sites
- Sinuopea2 sites
- Syntrophina2 sites
- Archaeoscyphia1 site
- Archinacella wanwanensis1 site
- Barnesoceras clavatum1 site
- Barnesoceras conosiphonatum1 site
- Barnesoceras expansum1 site
- Barnesoceras lamellosum1 site
- Barnesoceras lentiexpansum1 site
- Barnesoceras percurvatum1 site
- Barnesoceras transversum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Burenoceras, 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
5 references- Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones29
- The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda)3
- Early Ordovician Sea in Central Texas1
- Devonian-Mississippian Transition in Central Texas1
- Faunal study of the Wanwanian (basal Ordovician) series with special notes on the Ribeiridae and the Ellesmereoceroids1
Each of the 35 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 Burenoceras 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 Burenoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Burenoceras 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Burenoceras”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEllesmeroceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Foerste 1931