Pseudorthoceras

Pseudorthoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudorthoceratinaePBDB
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 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 305 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 240 of 305 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 64 of 305 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 305 occurrences375–370 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 3 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–341 Mya — about 2 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 1 occurrence337–333 Mya — about 12 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 12 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 10 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 34 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 21 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 10 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 35 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 35 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 52 occurrences300–295 Mya — about 11 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 3 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 3 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 5 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 15 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 16 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences368.5 Mya254.14 Mya375 Mya249 Mya

305 occurrences of Pseudorthoceras on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

305 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

95 formations

Graham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.14°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.15°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.05°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.51°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WWewoka — 35.62°N, 96.02°WWewoka — 34.76°N, 96.57°WWewoka — 35.02°N, 96.34°WHale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WHale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WHale — 36.02°N, 93.87°WHale — 35.91°N, 94.17°WHale — 35.91°N, 93.94°WHale — 36.17°N, 93.23°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.10°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WBloyd Shale — 36.09°N, 94.14°WBloyd Shale — 35.77°N, 94.38°WBloyd Shale — 36.06°N, 94.15°WBloyd Shale — 36.13°N, 93.35°WBloyd Shale — 35.89°N, 94.17°WBloyd Shale — 35.79°N, 94.24°WWitts Springs — 36.15°N, 93.00°WWitts Springs — 36.19°N, 93.20°WWitts Springs — 35.53°N, 92.00°WWitts Springs — 36.23°N, 93.31°WLoray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.31°WRockford Limestone — 38.88°N, 86.04°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WRockford Limestone — 40.83°N, 87.25°WDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WDog Creek — 34.37°N, 100.02°WBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBlaine — 34.19°N, 99.85°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 97.96°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 91.90°WPitkin — 35.69°N, 91.73°WBloyd — 36.06°N, 94.15°WBloyd — 35.92°N, 94.14°WBloyd — 35.86°N, 94.37°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WWolf Mountain — 33.21°N, 97.76°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WLyudyanza — 43.13°N, 133.24°EFayetteville — 35.87°N, 93.96°WFayetteville — 36.07°N, 94.17°WFayetteville — 36.13°N, 94.09°WHoldenville — 35.12°N, 96.43°WHoldenville — 35.44°N, 96.22°WHoldenville — 35.28°N, 96.34°WCaddo Creek — 31.84°N, 99.01°WCaddo Creek — 33.24°N, 98.08°WHueco — 32.40°N, 105.90°WPalmarito — 10.40°N, 72.99°WPalmarito — 10.63°N, 72.88°WImo — 35.80°N, 92.77°WImo — 35.77°N, 92.93°W

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The named rock units Pseudorthoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudorthoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pseudorthoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,654 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 277 sites for Pseudorthoceras, and this reads 240 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

70 references

Each of the 305 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. 58 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Pseudorthoceras

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No 3D scan of Pseudorthoceras 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1912