Girtyoceras

Girtyoceras

Moore, Raymond C.; Ockerman, J. W. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 73 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 73 of 73 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 4 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 6 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 7 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 8 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 8 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 12 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 17 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 6 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339.9 Mya307 Mya360 Mya303 Mya

73 occurrences of Girtyoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

73 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

7 formations

Chainman — 39.25°N, 115.48°WChainman — 39.60°N, 113.68°WChainman — 39.18°N, 113.72°WChainman — 38.57°N, 113.95°WChainman — 38.78°N, 113.85°WChainman — 39.88°N, 114.38°WBarnett — 31.16°N, 98.69°WBarnett — 31.48°N, 104.87°WBarnett — 30.67°N, 99.35°WMoorefield — 35.76°N, 91.58°WCarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°ELower Limestone — 55.76°N, 4.24°WMineral Wells — 33.20°N, 97.83°W

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The named rock units Girtyoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Girtyoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Girtyoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Girtyoceras, 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

11 references

Each of the 73 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 Girtyoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Moore, Raymond C.; Ockerman, J. W.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Girtyoceras 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 itGirtyoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1918