Parasphaerorthoceras

Parasphaerorthoceras is an extinct orthocerid genus, a nautiloid cephalopod, that lived in what would be Europe and north Africa during the Silurian from 422.9 to 418.1 mya, having existed for approximately 4.8 million years.

No picture of Parasphaerorthoceras 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 Parasphaerorthoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaerorthoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orthocerida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Orthocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orthocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Orthocerida

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 425 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 15 of 18 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 18 occurrencesDevonian434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 3 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 3 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425 Mya – 419.62 Mya433.7 Mya392.7 Mya

18 occurrences of Parasphaerorthoceras 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

18 occurrences

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

1 formation

Fluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.53°E

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The named rock units Parasphaerorthoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parasphaerorthoceras and its relatives

Silurian

Where Parasphaerorthoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Parasphaerorthoceras, 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

6 references

Each of the 18 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 Parasphaerorthoceras 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 Parasphaerorthoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Parasphaerorthoceras 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ristedt 1968