Sporadoceras

Sporadoceras

Antonov · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
SporadoceratinaePBDB
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 least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 163 of 163 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 163 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 3 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 3 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 7 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 15 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 15 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 15 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 15 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 15 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 15 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 11 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 2 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 2 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 2 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 2 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 2 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 2 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences368.5 Mya365.2 Mya372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

163 occurrences of Sporadoceras 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

163 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

11 formations

Virgin Hills — 18.00°S, 125.50°EShangdamingshan — 48.30°N, 118.20°EMandowa Mudstone — 30.83°S, 150.52°EHongguleleng — 46.76°N, 86.14°EHongguleleng — 46.60°N, 85.98°EStourscombe — 50.63°N, 4.49°WDaihua — 25.73°N, 106.37°EManticoceras Limestone — 50.78°N, 20.55°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EHeishantou — 46.75°N, 86.23°EHemberg — 51.37°N, 7.60°EVidrieros — 43.08°N, 4.92°W

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The named rock units Sporadoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sporadoceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sporadoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Sporadoceras, 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

15 references

Each of the 163 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Sporadoceras

Credit
Antonov
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sporadoceras 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 itSporadoceratinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1884