Rayonnoceras

Rayonnoceras is a genus of extinct cephalopods that lived around 325 million years ago during the Carboniferous. Although they resemble earlier actinocerids they are now thought to belong to the Pseudorthocerida

Rayonnoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarbactinoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Actinocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Actinocerida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinocerida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 39 of 39 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 39 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 6 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 8 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 7 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 6 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 6 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335.9 Mya323.4 Mya340.7 Mya298.1 Mya

39 occurrences of Rayonnoceras 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

39 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

9 formations

Fayetteville — 35.95°N, 93.98°WFayetteville — 35.89°N, 92.90°WFayetteville — 35.86°N, 92.58°WFayetteville — 35.89°N, 92.80°WFayetteville — 36.06°N, 94.13°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.08°WFayetteville — 35.75°N, 94.39°WFayetteville — 36.04°N, 92.76°WFayetteville — 36.24°N, 93.37°WFayetteville — 36.03°N, 93.17°WFayetteville — 35.20°N, 92.35°WFayetteville — 35.80°N, 91.92°WFayetteville — 36.05°N, 94.17°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 91.90°WPitkin — 35.79°N, 92.54°WPitkin — 35.91°N, 92.63°WPitkin — 36.04°N, 92.79°WPitkin — 35.79°N, 92.97°WCaney — 34.77°N, 94.01°WCaney — 34.71°N, 96.52°WRest Spring — 36.78°N, 117.46°WCarey — 34.48°N, 97.19°WGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WMagdalena — 31.82°N, 106.17°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WRuddell — 35.73°N, 91.55°W

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The named rock units Rayonnoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rayonnoceras and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rayonnoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Rayonnoceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 39 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

Media content2

Picture of Rayonnoceras

Credit
Notafly
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCarbactinoceratidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Croneis 1926