Robsonoceras
No picture of Robsonoceras 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 Robsonoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllesmeroceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 483.4 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
8 occurrences of Robsonoceras 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
8 occurrences- Cambrian5%
- Ordovician95%
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
7 formations
- San Juan Formation1
- Santa Rosita Formation1
- Jigunsan Formation · Taebaek Group1
- Chepultepec Formation1
- Chushina Formation1
- Manitou Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Robsonoceras 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.
Robsonoceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Robsonoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Walcottoceras monsense3 sites
- Cyptendoceras2 sites
- Orthis2 sites
- Ribeiria lucan2 sites
- Anaspyroceras1 site
- Angelinoceras1 site
- Annamitella1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Barnescoceras sp.1 site
- Broeggeria1 site
- Centroonoceras tokunagai1 site
- Ceratopea grandis1 site
- Clarkoceras1 site
- Conocerina1 site
- Ctenodonta corbuliformis1 site
- Ctenodonta coreanica1 site
- Ctenodonta nipponica1 site
- Ctenodonta oblongata1 site
- Curtoceras1 site
- Cyclendoceras1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Dakeoceras1 site
- Diplograptus1 site
- Ecculiomphalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Robsonoceras, 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- Cambrian and Ozarkian Brachiopoda, Ozarkian Cephalopods and Notostraca2
- Nautiloideos Ordovicicos de la Precordillera Argentina. Fauna de Huaco, Provincia de San Juan1
- The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda)1
- The oldest known tentaculitid: from the Chepultepec Limestone (Canadian) of Virginia1
- Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary1
- On some Ordovician fossils from Northern Argentina1
- The Cambro-Ordovician formations and faunas of south Chosen. Paleontology. Part I. Middle Ordovician faunas1
Each of the 8 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 Robsonoceras 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 Robsonoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Robsonoceras 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 itEllesmeroceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Foerste 1933