Scofieldoceras
No picture of Scofieldoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Scofieldoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OncoceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Oncocerida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Oncocerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Scofieldoceras 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Platteville Formation1
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Grand Detour Formation1
- Quimbys Mill Formation1
- Guttenberg Formation · Galena Group1
- Ion Formation · Galena Group1
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The named rock units Scofieldoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scofieldoceras and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scofieldoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Endoceras6 sites
- Gonioceras6 sites
- Isorthoceras junceum6 sites
- Manitoulinoceras6 sites
- Metaspyroceras6 sites
- Michelinoceras6 sites
- Endoceras proteiforme5 sites
- Whitfieldoceras4 sites
- Actinoceras3 sites
- Allumettoceras3 sites
- Anaspyroceras3 sites
- Antiplectoceras3 sites
- Beloitoceras3 sites
- Beloitoceras huronense3 sites
- Beloitoceras pandion3 sites
- Beloitoceras plebeium3 sites
- Cameroceras3 sites
- Centrocyrtoceras3 sites
- Chidleyenoceras3 sites
- Cyclendoceras annulatum3 sites
- Diestoceras3 sites
- Gonioceras anceps3 sites
- Gorbyoceras3 sites
- Hebetoceras3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scofieldoceras, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Scofieldoceras was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Scofieldoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scofieldoceras 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 itOncoceratidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1932