Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeocyclocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Endocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Endocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Endocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi 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
2 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 Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Endoceras vaginatum2 sites
- Adamsoceras holmi1 site
- Archigeisonoceras1 site
- Bathmoceras1 site
- Bentoceras proteus1 site
- Clinoceras dens1 site
- Cochlioceras avus1 site
- Estonioceras1 site
- Hedstroemoceras haelluddense1 site
- Ingriops1 site
- Kundoceras evansi1 site
- Microstomiceras holmi1 site
- Neumatoceras1 site
- Neumatoceras borense1 site
- Neumatoceras parviborense1 site
- Oelandoceras haelluddenense1 site
- Orthambonites calligramme1 site
- Paldoceras neptunsakerense1 site
- Paracyclostomiceras paucitumidum1 site
- Paramiamoceras breviventrum1 site
- Phthanoncoceras1 site
- Pictetoceras oliviae1 site
- Proterovaginoceras incognitum1 site
- Richardsonoceras gastroscopium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi 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 Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeocycloceras eichwaldi 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 itPalaeocycloceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Balashov 1968)