Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscophicerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 802 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 251.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
9 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Hypophiceras gracile5 sites
- Claraia stachei4 sites
- Otoceras woodwardi4 sites
- Discophiceras wordiei3 sites
- Microconchus valvatus3 sites
- Ophiceras commune3 sites
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi2 sites
- Bakevellia1 site
- Bakevellia exporrecta1 site
- Claraia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Metophiceras subdemissum1 site
- Naticopsis1 site
- Neogondolella carinata1 site
- Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) poulseni1 site
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi falcata1 site
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) subkyokticum1 site
- Ophiceras (Metophiceras) noenygaardi1 site
- Ophiceras (Metophiceras) praecursor1 site
- Promyalina1 site
- Pseudomonotis1 site
- Unionites breviformis1 site
- Vishnuites (Paravishnuites)1 site
- Vishnuites (Paravishnuites) oxynotus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum, 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
3 references- Additions to the Eo-Triassic invertebrate fauna of east Greenland7
- The first discoveries of conodonts in the Otoceras beds of Svalbard1
- Triassic stratigraphy and general geology of the country around Fleming Fjord1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum 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 Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum 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 itDiscophiceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spath 1935