Gephuroceratidae

Gephuroceratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GephurocerataceaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 479 of 479 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 479 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 4 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 10 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 10 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 10 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 15 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 26 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 26 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 26 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 26 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 64 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 84 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 84 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 84 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 8 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379 Mya372.15 Mya382.8 Mya358.4 Mya

479 occurrences of Gephuroceratidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

479 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

30 formations

Lyaiol — 63.35°N, 53.78°ELyaiol — 63.35°N, 53.80°ELyaiol — 63.15°N, 53.80°ELyaiol — 63.34°N, 53.71°ELyaiol — 63.12°N, 53.85°EVirgin Hills — 18.50°S, 126.00°EVirgin Hills — 18.00°S, 126.00°EVirgin Hills — 18.74°S, 126.08°EVirgin Hills — 18.63°S, 126.05°EVirgin Hills — 18.75°S, 126.03°ESand — 50.99°N, 7.16°EDomanik — 63.55°N, 53.37°EDomanik — 63.53°N, 53.42°EDomanik — 63.51°N, 53.61°EDomanik — 63.34°N, 53.71°EAngola — 42.62°N, 79.08°WAngola — 42.63°N, 79.02°WAngola — 42.68°N, 78.82°WAngola — 42.72°N, 78.67°WAngola — 42.72°N, 78.47°WAngola — 42.78°N, 78.32°WAngola — 42.70°N, 78.13°WAngola — 42.80°N, 78.17°WAngola — 42.63°N, 78.04°WRhinestreet — 42.80°N, 78.68°WRhinestreet — 42.75°N, 78.30°WRhinestreet — 42.70°N, 78.13°WRhinestreet — 42.80°N, 78.17°WCashaqua — 42.68°N, 78.93°WCashaqua — 42.80°N, 78.68°WCashaqua — 42.85°N, 78.48°WCashaqua — 42.87°N, 78.35°WCashaqua — 42.88°N, 78.17°WCashaqua — 42.82°N, 78.08°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.92°WCashaqua — 42.70°N, 77.87°WCashaqua — 42.75°N, 77.72°WCashaqua — 42.78°N, 77.55°WCashaqua — 42.72°N, 77.50°WCashaqua — 42.77°N, 77.40°WCashaqua — 42.78°N, 77.32°WCashaqua — 42.73°N, 77.33°WCashaqua — 42.65°N, 77.37°WCashaqua — 42.63°N, 77.37°WGogo — 18.50°S, 126.00°EGogo — 18.00°S, 126.00°EGogo — 18.66°S, 126.07°EGogo — 18.40°S, 125.85°EGogo — 18.57°S, 125.95°ECoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EHanover — 42.53°N, 79.17°WHanover — 42.67°N, 78.75°WHanover — 42.67°N, 78.43°WBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EBüdesheim — 50.19°N, 6.51°EGenundewa — 42.88°N, 78.33°WGenundewa — 42.77°N, 77.82°WGenundewa — 42.73°N, 77.32°WLong Rapids — 51.00°N, 82.00°WLong Rapids — 50.40°N, 81.56°WOlentangy Shale — 40.00°N, 83.00°WNehden — 51.44°N, 8.65°EKnoppenbiessen — 50.97°N, 7.17°EAmana Beds — 41.68°N, 92.07°WSadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 126.00°EHuesa — 41.00°N, 1.00°WWest River Shale — 42.77°N, 77.88°WBergisch Gladbach — 50.97°N, 7.15°EGardeau — 42.62°N, 77.40°WNerpalakh — 75.56°N, 135.63°E

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The named rock units Gephuroceratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gephuroceratidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Gephuroceratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

409 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 220 sites for Gephuroceratidae, 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

29 references

Each of the 479 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. 17 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 Gephuroceratidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gephuroceratidae 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 itGephurocerataceae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1897