Mitroceras
No picture of Mitroceras 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 Mitroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrevicoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Oncocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Oncocerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mitroceras on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
2 formations
- Fiddlers Green Formation · Bertie Group1
- Akron Formation1
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The named rock units Mitroceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mitroceras and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mitroceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Delthyris2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Leperditia2 sites
- Medusaegraptus2 sites
- Pterygotus2 sites
- Whitfieldella2 sites
- Acutiramus cummingsi1 site
- Acutiramus macrophthalmus1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Ascograptus1 site
- Aulocystis1 site
- Bertiella obesa1 site
- Brachyopterus1 site
- Buffalopterus1 site
- Bunaia1 site
- Calithamnopsis silurica1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Carcinosoma1 site
- Ceratiocaris1 site
- Ceratopora1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Cyathophyllum1 site
- Dawsonoceras1 site
- Dolichopterus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mitroceras, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Mitroceras 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 Mitroceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mitroceras 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrevicoceratidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1894