Endoceras proteiforme

Endoceras proteiforme

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndocerasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Endocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Endocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Endocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 28 of 28 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 28 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.7 Mya442.6 Mya

28 occurrences of Endoceras proteiforme 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

19 formations

Denley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WGlenwood — 45.00°N, 93.00°WGlenwood — 43.00°N, 91.00°WSugar River Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WSugar River Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 45.00°N, 93.00°WPlatteville — 45.00°N, 93.00°WDecorah Shale — 45.00°N, 93.00°WPecatonica — 43.00°N, 91.00°WMifflin — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGrand Detour — 43.00°N, 91.00°WNachusa — 43.00°N, 91.00°WQuimbys Mill — 43.00°N, 91.00°WSpechts Ferry — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGuttenberg — 43.00°N, 91.00°WAmadjuak — 66.00°N, 69.83°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WTrenton Falls — 43.28°N, 75.15°W

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The named rock units Endoceras proteiforme has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Endoceras proteiforme and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Endoceras proteiforme and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Endoceras proteiforme, 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

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 content1

Picture of Endoceras proteiforme

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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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1847