Cameroceras trentonense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CamerocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Endocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Endocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Endocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cameroceras trentonense 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
4 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
2 formations
- Denley Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group3
- Lexington Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Cameroceras trentonense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cameroceras trentonense and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cameroceras trentonense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Ctenodonta peracuta3 sites
- Cyrtorizoceras3 sites
- Endoceras proteiforme3 sites
- Eridotrypa mutabilis3 sites
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria3 sites
- Geisonoceras3 sites
- Isotelus gigas3 sites
- Lichenocrinus3 sites
- Oncoceras3 sites
- Ordogeisonoceras amplicameratum3 sites
- Paucicrura rogata3 sites
- Prasopora3 sites
- Sinuites cancellatus3 sites
- Trocholites ammonius3 sites
- Amorphognathus2 sites
- Amplexopora2 sites
- Bythopora2 sites
- Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus2 sites
- Dapsilodus mutatus2 sites
- Dekayia2 sites
- Dendrocystites2 sites
- Distacodus2 sites
- Drepanoistodus2 sites
- Drepanoistodus suberectus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cameroceras trentonense, 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- Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (Middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State2
- Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio1
- Fossil Communities of the Middle Trenton Group (Ordovician) of New York State1
Each of the 4 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 Cameroceras trentonense
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cameroceras trentonense 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1842