Protocyptendoceras longicameratum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtocyptendocerasPBDB
- 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 5.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 471.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protocyptendoceras longicameratum 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Protocyptendoceras longicameratum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protocyptendoceras longicameratum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protocyptendoceras longicameratum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ampyx priscus1 site
- Anedriophus moroccoensis1 site
- Argodiscus espilezorum1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Bactroceras1 site
- Balanocystites1 site
- Balantiocystis1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi1 site
- Bathmoceras australe1 site
- Carcassonnella courtessolei1 site
- Cavernolites1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Conulariida1 site
- Destombesiceras zagorense1 site
- Foulonia peregrina1 site
- Graptolithina1 site
- Lesueurilla prima1 site
- Lingulocystis1 site
- Machaeridia1 site
- Parabathycheilus gallicus1 site
- Polymeres1 site
- Redonia michelae1 site
- Rhopalocystis destombesi1 site
- Rioceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protocyptendoceras longicameratum, 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 1 occurrence 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 Protocyptendoceras longicameratum 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 Protocyptendoceras longicameratum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protocyptendoceras longicameratum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itProtocyptendoceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kröger and Lefebvre 2012