Ellesmerocerida

The Ellesmerocerida is an extinct order of primitive cephalopods belonging to the subclass Nautiloidea with a widespread distribution that lived during the Late Cambrian and Ordovician.

Ellesmerocerida

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 67 of 746 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 679 of 746 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 746 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 2 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 3 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 6 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 21 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 35 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 102 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 106 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 108 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 83 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 84 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 49 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 41 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 38 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 21 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 12 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 8 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 6 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 5 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya449.5 Mya498 Mya442 Mya

746 occurrences of Ellesmerocerida 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

746 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

111 formations

Gasconade — 38.10°N, 91.13°WGasconade — 37.59°N, 90.17°WGasconade — 37.35°N, 90.97°WGasconade — 37.14°N, 91.35°WGasconade — 37.93°N, 90.78°WGasconade — 37.97°N, 91.33°WGasconade — 38.97°N, 91.20°WGasconade — 37.15°N, 91.35°WGasconade — 37.90°N, 91.17°WOneota Dolomite — 43.02°N, 91.18°WOneota Dolomite — 43.54°N, 91.18°WOneota Dolomite — 44.23°N, 91.92°WOneota Dolomite — 42.71°N, 89.44°WOneota Dolomite — 45.72°N, 87.63°WOneota Dolomite — 43.71°N, 91.42°WOneota Dolomite — 44.40°N, 92.08°WOneota Dolomite — 43.12°N, 90.50°WOneota Dolomite — 44.07°N, 91.94°WOneota Dolomite — 43.07°N, 89.40°WOneota Dolomite — 43.72°N, 91.97°WOneota Dolomite — 44.73°N, 92.80°WGreat Meadows — 43.91°N, 73.42°WGreat Meadows — 43.42°N, 73.48°WTanyard — 30.27°N, 97.74°WTanyard — 30.46°N, 99.13°WTanyard — 31.00°N, 98.53°WTanyard — 30.33°N, 98.30°WTanyard — 31.07°N, 98.70°WSiyangshan — 28.90°N, 118.50°ESiyangshan — 28.82°N, 118.60°EChepultepec — 36.75°N, 82.25°WChepultepec — 36.73°N, 81.77°WChepultepec — 38.80°N, 78.55°WChepultepec — 36.29°N, 83.59°WChepultepec — 35.87°N, 84.68°WChepultepec — 35.07°N, 85.58°WChepultepec — 36.45°N, 83.57°WChepultepec — 39.64°N, 77.72°WChepultepec — 33.90°N, 86.49°WChepultepec — 36.12°N, 83.48°WChepultepec — 33.58°N, 86.79°WTribes Hill — 43.47°N, 73.41°WTribes Hill — 42.98°N, 74.27°WTribes Hill — 42.95°N, 74.24°WTribes Hill — 42.95°N, 74.29°WTribes Hill — 42.90°N, 74.56°WTribes Hill — 43.02°N, 74.87°WTribes Hill — 42.96°N, 74.08°WTribes Hill — 43.36°N, 73.48°WTribes Hill — 43.00°N, 74.73°WTribes Hill — 43.56°N, 73.40°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.05°N, 92.61°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.35°N, 93.07°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.95°N, 91.38°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.29°N, 90.96°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.04°N, 91.06°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.19°N, 91.18°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.23°N, 90.88°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.24°N, 92.32°WGasconade Dolomite — 38.25°N, 90.95°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.68°N, 92.66°WGasconade Dolomite — 33.86°N, 86.56°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.11°N, 91.35°WGasconade Dolomite — 37.35°N, 90.97°WOneota — 44.01°N, 91.46°WOneota — 43.90°N, 91.34°WOneota — 43.13°N, 90.71°WOneota — 43.02°N, 90.66°WOneota — 43.05°N, 91.14°WOneota — 43.58°N, 91.22°WFort Cassin — 44.21°N, 73.25°WFort Cassin — 44.77°N, 73.49°WFort Cassin — 44.60°N, 73.44°WFort Cassin — 44.01°N, 73.60°WFort Cassin — 43.78°N, 73.64°WRochdale — 41.44°N, 74.36°WRochdale — 43.47°N, 73.41°WRochdale — 43.36°N, 73.47°WRochdale — 41.72°N, 73.85°WDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EBen Suardal Limestone — 57.23°N, 5.91°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.21°N, 6.00°WBen Suardal Limestone — 57.21°N, 4.78°WYeli — 40.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 39.00°N, 115.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 119.00°ECroisaphuill — 58.52°N, 4.79°WCroisaphuill — 58.60°N, 4.83°WNaylor Ledge — 45.04°N, 73.07°WWan-wan-kou — 38.35°N, 125.43°EWilberns — 30.46°N, 99.13°WCotter — 37.41°N, 79.91°WCotter — 37.64°N, 93.09°WCotter — 34.96°N, 98.63°WCotter — 44.71°N, 75.47°WCotter — 38.22°N, 90.38°WCouches de la Maurerie — 43.45°N, 2.99°ECouches de la Maurerie — 43.30°N, 2.88°ECouches de la Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°EEllenburger — 31.08°N, 99.00°WEllenburger — 30.65°N, 99.25°WEllenburger — 31.17°N, 99.07°WEllenburger — 31.07°N, 98.70°WEllenburger — 31.17°N, 99.18°WMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EBoat Harbour — 51.39°N, 56.45°WBoat Harbour — 51.59°N, 55.99°WBoat Harbour — 48.54°N, 58.74°WBoat Harbour — 51.61°N, 55.92°WBoat Harbour — 50.77°N, 57.14°WCatoche — 48.55°N, 59.25°WCatoche — 48.51°N, 59.22°WCatoche — 48.54°N, 58.74°WCatoche — 51.63°N, 55.90°W

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The named rock units Ellesmerocerida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 87 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellesmerocerida and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ellesmerocerida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 340 sites for Ellesmerocerida, and this reads 240 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

84 references

Each of the 746 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. 72 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ellesmerocerida

Credit
The original uploader was Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia .
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ellesmerocerida 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. Flower and Kummel 1950