Monoceratella

No picture of Monoceratella 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 Monoceratella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalticellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 16 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 16 occurrencesSilurian458–457 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449.6 Mya443.1 Mya457.9 Mya426.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Monoceratella 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

16 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

4 formations

Pentamerus Bjerg — 81.00°N, 65.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WHilliste — 58.87°N, 22.97°ELangøyene — 59.90°N, 10.73°E

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The named rock units Monoceratella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Monoceratella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Monoceratella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Monoceratella, 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

5 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

No picture of Monoceratella 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 Monoceratella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Monoceratella 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 itBalticellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Teichert 1937