Mysterioceras

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MysterioceratidaePBDB
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 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.1 Mya457.3 Mya469.9 Mya449.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Mysterioceras 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

8 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

6 formations

Shan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°EShan Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EIda Bay — 43.00°S, 147.00°EFengdonggang — 29.00°N, 107.00°EXiayan — 37.00°N, 103.00°EZhongbao — 37.00°N, 102.00°EBenjamin Limestone — 43.46°S, 146.86°E

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The named rock units Mysterioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mysterioceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mysterioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mysterioceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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 Mysterioceras 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 Mysterioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mysterioceras was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMysterioceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Teichert and Glenister 1953