Dolorthoceras

Dolorthoceras is a nautiloid cephalopod from the upper Paleozoic found in Lower Devonian to Lower Permian strata in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Dolorthoceras

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 25 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 14 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 25 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrences416–411 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences411–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences344–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–327 Mya — about 4 occurrences327–321 Mya — about 5 occurrences321–316 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences316–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–282 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences410.62 Mya254.14 Mya416 Mya249 Mya

25 occurrences of Dolorthoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

25 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

14 formations

Akhura — 39.60°N, 45.15°EAkhura — 39.56°N, 45.21°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°EFayetteville — 36.04°N, 92.76°WFayetteville — 36.24°N, 93.37°WFayetteville — 35.74°N, 91.82°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.07°N, 1.82°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.00°N, 2.00°WMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°EAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.52°EImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WKarakavak — 39.62°N, 72.80°EBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.17°N, 1.87°WEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°EWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WHambast — 30.89°N, 53.22°EMizuyagadani — 36.22°N, 137.51°EBoggy — 34.43°N, 97.96°W

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The named rock units Dolorthoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dolorthoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dolorthoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Dolorthoceras, 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

14 references

Each of the 25 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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.

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No 3D scan of Dolorthoceras 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

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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. Miller 1931