Tarphyceras chadwickense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TarphycerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Tarphycerida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tarphyceras chadwickense 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
4 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
4 formations
- Honeycut Formation · Ellenburger Group1
- Kindblade Formation · Arbuckle Group1
- Powell Formation1
- Cotter Formation1
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The named rock units Tarphyceras chadwickense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tarphyceras chadwickense and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Tarphyceras chadwickense and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- <Stromatolite>1 site
- Archaeoscyphia annulata1 site
- Bridgeites planidorsalis1 site
- Bridgeites supraconvexa1 site
- Calathium1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Eopteria richardsoni1 site
- Finkelnburgia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Ivoechiton calathicolus1 site
- Lophonema taneyensis1 site
- Orospira bigranosa1 site
- Pulchrilamina1 site
- Shumardoceras complanatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tarphyceras chadwickense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Organic buildups in the Lower Ordovician (Canadian) of Texas and Oklahoma2
- Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, Part I: Nautilicones2
Each of the 4 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 Tarphyceras chadwickense 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 Tarphyceras chadwickense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tarphyceras chadwickense 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 itTarphyceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich et al. 1942