Orthodochmioceras
No picture of Orthodochmioceras 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 Orthodochmioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthodochmioceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Orthodochmioceras 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
3 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
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The named rock units Orthodochmioceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthodochmioceras and its relatives
SilurianWhere Orthodochmioceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Actinodochmioceras3 sites
- Sichuanoceras3 sites
- Eushantungoceras2 sites
- Kailia2 sites
- Kailiceras2 sites
- Neosichuanoceras2 sites
- Ohioceras2 sites
- Pentameroceras2 sites
- Stenogomphoceras2 sites
- Trimeroceras2 sites
- <Stromatolites>1 site
- <Thrombolites>1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Brevilamnulella1 site
- Calocyrtoceras1 site
- Calorthoceras1 site
- Coenites1 site
- Coronocephalus rongxiensis1 site
- Coronocephalus tenuisulcatus1 site
- Cymostrophia1 site
- Dazhucrinus1 site
- Encrinuroides1 site
- Enidites sp.1 site
- Eospirifer1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Orthodochmioceras, 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- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)1
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
- Silurian nautiloid faunas of central and southwestern China1
Each of the 3 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 Orthodochmioceras 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 Orthodochmioceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Orthodochmioceras 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 itOrthodochmioceratidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen et al. 1981