Proterovaginoceras

Proterovaginoceras is a medium to large sized endocerid from the Early and Middle Ordovician included in the family Endoceratidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProterovaginoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 465.9 Mya to 464.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 472.1 Mya to 458 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465.9 Mya – 464.3 Mya472.6 Mya457.5 Mya

14 occurrences of Proterovaginoceras 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

14 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

10 formations

Huk — 59.78°N, 10.48°EHuk — 59.65°N, 9.75°EKomstad — 55.57°N, 14.12°EKomstad — 55.49°N, 14.31°EPivorjaiskaja — 55.60°N, 26.47°EAbastu — 36.57°N, 54.92°ELoobu — 59.40°N, 24.56°EGillberga — 57.35°N, 17.05°EHolen — 58.61°N, 13.39°EStein — 60.95°N, 10.13°EObukhovskaya — 58.13°N, 32.27°ESegerstad — 55.36°N, 19.98°E

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The named rock units Proterovaginoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proterovaginoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Proterovaginoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Proterovaginoceras, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Proterovaginoceras 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.

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. Ruedemann 1905