Ectenoceras

No picture of Ectenoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ectenoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EllesmeroceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida

Time the record covers

At least 6.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 28 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 27 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician489–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 2 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 2 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483.4 Mya477.1 Mya489.4 Mya470.8 Mya

28 occurrences of Ectenoceras 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

28 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

9 formations

Chepultepec — 36.73°N, 81.77°WChepultepec — 38.80°N, 78.55°WChepultepec — 35.07°N, 85.58°WChepultepec — 33.90°N, 86.49°WChepultepec — 36.12°N, 83.48°WChepultepec — 39.64°N, 77.72°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.29°N, 90.96°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.24°N, 92.32°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.25°N, 90.95°WTanyard — 30.27°N, 97.74°WTanyard — 31.07°N, 98.70°WWan-wan-kou — 38.35°N, 125.43°ETribes Hill — 42.87°N, 74.61°WTribes Hill — 42.94°N, 74.29°WTribes Hill — 42.95°N, 74.28°WGasconade — 37.14°N, 91.35°WGasconade — 37.59°N, 90.17°WGreat Meadows — 43.91°N, 73.42°WWest Spring Creek — 34.34°N, 97.15°WOneota Dolomite — 43.54°N, 91.18°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Ectenoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ectenoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ectenoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Ectenoceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 28 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 Ectenoceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ectenoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEllesmeroceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Foerste 1936