Ectenolites clelandi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EctenolitesPBDB
- 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 most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Ectenolites clelandi 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian46%
- Ordovician54%
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
3 formations
- Great Meadows Formation2
- Tribes Hill Formation · Beekmantown Group2
- Siyangshan Formation2
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The named rock units Ectenolites clelandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ectenolites clelandi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ectenolites clelandi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Annoceras costatum3 sites
- Clarkoceras ruedemanni3 sites
- Ectenolites sinuatus3 sites
- Buehleroceras2 sites
- Clarkoceras2 sites
- Conocerina2 sites
- Ellesmeroceras indomitum2 sites
- Eorudolfoceras2 sites
- Eorudolfoceras antiquum2 sites
- Eremoceras2 sites
- Paradakeoceras2 sites
- ? Keriaceras percostatum1 site
- ? Leiocorphyge lobata n. sp.1 site
- ? Remopleuridella obtusa1 site
- Acaroceras endogastrum1 site
- Acaroceras jianghsanense1 site
- Annoceras multicameratum1 site
- Archinacella magna1 site
- Archinacella parva1 site
- Clelandia1 site
- Ectenolites extensus1 site
- Ectenolites primus1 site
- Ellesmeroceras1 site
- Eremoceras teres1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ectenolites clelandi, 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- The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia - Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York1
- The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang1
- Upper Cambrian cephalopods from western Zhejiang1
- Part II - Fossils from the Smith Basin Limestone of the Fort Ann Region New York1
- The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda)1
- Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Ectenolites clelandi 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 Ectenolites clelandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ectenolites clelandi 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 itEctenolites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich et al. 1944