Danoceras

Danoceras is an essentially straight shelled oncocerid named by Troedsson in 1926, and included in the Diestoceratidae. It has been found in the upper, and possibly middle, Ordovician of Europe, (Estonia), Greenland, and Russia,. Named species include Danoceras ravni, type, D. inutile, D. scandinavicum, and D. skalbergensis.

No picture of Danoceras 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 Danoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 8.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 14 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–449 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.8 Mya445.2 Mya457.8 Mya442.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Danoceras 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

14 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

10 formations

Boda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 60.17°N, 14.70°ESkogerholmen — 59.85°N, 10.53°ESkogerholmen — 59.07°N, 11.04°EHusbergøya — 59.85°N, 10.52°EHusbergøya — 59.87°N, 10.72°EGull River — 44.73°N, 79.38°WGlisstjärn — 61.05°N, 15.20°EBønsnes — 60.06°N, 10.21°ESørbakken — 60.05°N, 10.18°EGrimsøya — 59.85°N, 10.52°EVaureal — 49.67°N, 62.92°WKullsberg — 60.37°N, 14.87°E

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

Danoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Danoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Danoceras, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 Danoceras 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 Danoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Danoceras 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.

The description on this site

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 itDiestoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Troedsson 1926