Schuchertoceras

Schuchertoceras

Orviku, Karl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AscoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ascocerida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 33 of 35 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 35 occurrencesSilurian453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449.6 Mya445.2 Mya453.3 Mya432.4 Mya

35 occurrences of Schuchertoceras 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

35 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

13 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WVaureal — 49.82°N, 64.35°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBønsnes — 60.08°N, 10.20°EBønsnes — 60.00°N, 10.35°EElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMaquoketa — 45.00°N, 93.00°WScales Shale — 43.00°N, 91.00°WFort Atkinson Limestone — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGrande Coupe — 48.53°N, 64.25°WHusbergøya — 59.85°N, 10.40°EHerøya — 59.11°N, 9.65°E

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The named rock units Schuchertoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Schuchertoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Schuchertoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

517 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Schuchertoceras, 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

8 references

Each of the 35 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 content1

Picture of Schuchertoceras

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orviku, Karl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Schuchertoceras was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itAscoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1932