Keraiaceras
No picture of Keraiaceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Keraiaceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllesmeroceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Time the record covers
At most 3.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 483.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Keraiaceras 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Keraiaceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Keraiaceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Keraiaceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- ? Leiocorphyge lobata n. sp.1 site
- Annoceras costatum1 site
- Archinacella magna1 site
- Archinacella parva1 site
- Buehleroceras1 site
- Clarkoceras1 site
- Clarkoceras ruedemanni1 site
- Clelandia1 site
- Conocerina1 site
- Ectenolites1 site
- Ectenolites clelandi1 site
- Ectenolites sinuatus1 site
- Ellesmeroceras indomitum1 site
- Eremoceras1 site
- Finkelnburgia1 site
- Levisoceras1 site
- Macluritella uniangulata1 site
- Palaeacmaea1 site
- Paradakeoceras1 site
- Paraplethopeltis1 site
- Remopleuridiella1 site
- Schizopea typica1 site
- Sinuopea1 site
- Sinuopea emminencis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Keraiaceras, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Keraiaceras was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Keraiaceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Keraiaceras 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 itEllesmeroceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.