Ectocycloceras levisense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EctocyclocerasPBDB
- 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 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.
4 occurrences of Ectocycloceras levisense 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Sangomore Formation · Durness Group1
- Balnakeil Formation · Durness Group1
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The named rock units Ectocycloceras levisense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ectocycloceras levisense and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ectocycloceras levisense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Bassleroceras alethes1 site
- Bridgeoceras subannulatum1 site
- Ceratopea canadensis1 site
- Clarkoceras lawrencense1 site
- Clarkoceras levisense1 site
- Diaphoroceras belli1 site
- Donaldiella cicelia1 site
- Dyscritoceras1 site
- Dyscritoceras dictys1 site
- Dyscritoceras metellus1 site
- Endocycloceras wilsonae1 site
- Eremoceras syphax1 site
- Lawrenceoceras collinsi1 site
- Lecanospira compacta1 site
- Levisoceras belli1 site
- Levisoceras mercurius1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Macluritella peachi1 site
- Murchisonia (Hormotoma) gracillima1 site
- Onychoceras surgens1 site
- Protocycloceras levisense1 site
- Rudolfoceras autolycus1 site
- Rudolfoceras kindlei1 site
- Rudolfoceras subarcuatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ectocycloceras levisense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The Lower Ordovician cephalopod faunas of the Durness Group, North-West Scotland3
- Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary1
Each of the 4 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 Ectocycloceras levisense was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ectocycloceras levisense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ectocycloceras levisense 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 itEctocycloceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich et al. 1944)