Paracyclendoceras cancellatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnthocerasPBDB
- 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 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.1 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 Paracyclendoceras cancellatum 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 Paracyclendoceras cancellatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracyclendoceras cancellatum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paracyclendoceras cancellatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Asaphus1 site
- Cyrtonotella semicircularis1 site
- Dideroceras1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Endoceras vaginatum1 site
- Glyptograptus1 site
- Lagenochitina1 site
- Lycophoria nucella1 site
- Megistaspis1 site
- Myotreta crassa1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Rowellella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paracyclendoceras cancellatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Locality 4 : 2 Ontika Clint1
- The revision of structural - facial zonation and stratigraphy of the lower part of the Ordovician in the south - east Baltic area1
Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paracyclendoceras cancellatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Paracyclendoceras cancellatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracyclendoceras cancellatum 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 itAnthoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Eichwald 1842)