Plectoceras jason
No picture of Plectoceras jason 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 Plectoceras jason, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Barrandeocerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Plectoceras jason 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
4 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
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group3
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Plectoceras jason has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plectoceras jason and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Plectoceras jason and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Camerella varians4 sites
- Hibbertia valcourensis3 sites
- Isotelus harrisi3 sites
- Mimella vulgaris3 sites
- Multicostella platys3 sites
- Pliomerops canadensis3 sites
- Stenopareia globosus3 sites
- Basilicus (Basiliella) whittingtoni2 sites
- Cybele primus2 sites
- Dactylogonia incrassata2 sites
- Eurychilina latimarginata2 sites
- Leperditia canadensis2 sites
- Lingulella columba2 sites
- Lonchodomas chaziensis2 sites
- Onychoplecia longirostris2 sites
- Paleocystites tenuiradiatus2 sites
- Platillaenus erastusi2 sites
- Sphaerexochus parvus2 sites
- Stictopora fenestrata2 sites
- Thaleops ovata2 sites
- Vogdesia obtusus2 sites
- Archinacella deformata1 site
- Archinacella proprius1 site
- Bolboporites americanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Plectoceras jason, 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 4 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 Plectoceras jason 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 Plectoceras jason, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectoceras jason 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 itPlectoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1859)