Spyroceras baffinense
No picture of Spyroceras baffinense 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 Spyroceras baffinense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpyrocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Spyroceras baffinense 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spyroceras baffinense 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.
Spyroceras baffinense and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Spyroceras baffinense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Charactoceras3 sites
- Diestoceras3 sites
- Endoceras baffinense3 sites
- Westonoceras3 sites
- Actinoceras2 sites
- Allumettoceras2 sites
- Cyrtogomphoceras2 sites
- Ephippiorthoceras2 sites
- Ephippiorthoceras dowlingi2 sites
- Kionoceras2 sites
- Kochoceras cuneiforme2 sites
- Ormoceras2 sites
- Westonoceras baffinense2 sites
- Westonoceras cornulum2 sites
- ? Leuorthoceras baffinense1 site
- Beloitoceras1 site
- Cheirocystella1 site
- Cyclendoceras1 site
- Cyrtorizoceras1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri canadensis1 site
- Discoceras1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Floripatella humilis1 site
- Fusispira inflata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spyroceras baffinense, 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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spyroceras baffinense 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 Spyroceras baffinense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spyroceras baffinense was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSpyroceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schuchert 1900)