Curtoceras eatoni

Curtoceras eatoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CurtocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Tarphycerida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician483–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483.9 Mya470.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Curtoceras eatoni 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

7 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

1 formation

Fort Cassin — 44.21°N, 73.25°WFort Cassin — 44.60°N, 73.44°WFort Cassin — 43.78°N, 73.64°W

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The named rock units Curtoceras eatoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Curtoceras eatoni and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Curtoceras eatoni and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Curtoceras eatoni, 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

2 references

Each of the 7 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 Curtoceras eatoni

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Curtoceras eatoni 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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What may have been alongside itCurtoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whitfield 1886)