Orthonybyoceras dyeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrthonybyocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.9 Mya to 445.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Orthonybyoceras dyeri 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Orthonybyoceras dyeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Orthonybyoceras dyeri and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Orthonybyoceras dyeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Orthonybyoceras isakari4 sites
- Orthonybyoceras moisense4 sites
- Discoceras vasalemmense3 sites
- Isorthoceras cavi3 sites
- Discoceras rarospira2 sites
- Hemibeloitoceras molis2 sites
- Isorthoceras maris2 sites
- Rummoceras rummuensis2 sites
- Striatocycloceras undulostriatum2 sites
- Vasalemmoceras tolerabile2 sites
- Achradocystites1 site
- Barrandeocerid indet.1 site
- Beloitoceras1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Ceramopora1 site
- Discoceras1 site
- Eofletcheria1 site
- Hemibeloitoceras1 site
- Hemibeloitoceras arduum1 site
- Hemicosmites1 site
- Hoeloceras muroni1 site
- Isorthoceras padisense1 site
- Isorthoceras vexilli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Orthonybyoceras dyeri, 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 references- Cephalopods from reef limestone of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia (latest Sandbian, Upper Ordovician) and the establishment of a local warm-water fauna5
- Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Orthonybyoceras dyeri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Orthonybyoceras dyeri 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 itOrthonybyoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Miller 1875)