Centroceras

Centroceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CentroceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesDevonian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 10 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393.47 Mya – 387.95 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

10 occurrences of Centroceras 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

10 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

2 formations

Silica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMarcellus — 42.65°N, 74.02°WMarcellus — 41.22°N, 74.82°W

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The named rock units Centroceras 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.

Centroceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Centroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Centroceras, 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

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Centroceras

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Centroceras 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCentroceratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

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