Gorbyoceras gorbyi
No picture of Gorbyoceras gorbyi 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 Gorbyoceras gorbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GorbyocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Orthocerida
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Gorbyoceras gorbyi 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Gorbyoceras gorbyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gorbyoceras gorbyi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Gorbyoceras gorbyi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Diestoceras indianense2 sites
- Armenoceras1 site
- Beloitoceras bucheri1 site
- Charactoceras baeri1 site
- Cyrtocerina1 site
- Diestoceras1 site
- Diestoceras eos1 site
- Diestoceras shideleri1 site
- Fayettoceras1 site
- Gorbyoceras hammelli1 site
- Kindleoceras1 site
- Manitoulinoceras1 site
- Oncoceras1 site
- Treptoceras1 site
- Zitteloceras hitzi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gorbyoceras gorbyi, 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
3 references- Corals and a cephalopod from the Whirlpool Formation (latest Ordovician, Hirnantian), Hamilton, Ontario: biostratigraphic and biogeographic significance1
- Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio1
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
Each of the 3 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 Gorbyoceras gorbyi 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 Gorbyoceras gorbyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gorbyoceras gorbyi 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 itGorbyoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1894)