Puncticeras ovatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PuncticerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- 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 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Puncticeras ovatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
10 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Puncticeras ovatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Puncticeras ovatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Puncticeras ovatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Tornoceras simplex4 sites
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculus3 sites
- Paratornoceras lentiforme3 sites
- Dimeroceras petterae2 sites
- Polonoceras delepinei2 sites
- Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) biferum2 sites
- Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) latilobatum2 sites
- Angustidontus seriatus1 site
- Armatites planidorsatus1 site
- Athyris globularis1 site
- Bactrites1 site
- Buchiola1 site
- Cheiloceras1 site
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras)1 site
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum1 site
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum1 site
- Cheiloceras sacculum1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Crickites holzapfeli1 site
- Cyrtiopsis1 site
- Cyrtogomphus1 site
- Elasmatium elongata1 site
- Elasmatium gowandense1 site
- Epitornoceras peracutum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Puncticeras ovatus, 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
2 references- Upper Devonian (Famennian) ammonoids from the Canning Basin, Western Australia9
- Die Fauna aus dem mittleren Oberdevon (Nehden-Stufe) des suedwestlichen Bergischen Landes (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge); The lower Famennian fauna (Nehden-substage) of the southwestern region of the Bergisches Land (Rhenish Schiefergebirge)1
Each of the 10 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 Puncticeras ovatus 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 Puncticeras ovatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Puncticeras ovatus 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 itPuncticeras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munster 1832)