Temperoceras

Temperoceras is a genus of orthoconic nautiloid cephalopods that lived in what is now north Africa, Europe, and Asia during the early Paleozoic. It was named by I. V. Barskov in 1960.

No picture of Temperoceras 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 Temperoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GeisonoceratidaePBDB
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 least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.2 Mya to 383.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 25 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 25 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 21 of 25 occurrencesDevonian451–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 7 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 6 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 1 occurrence407–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–398 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.2 Mya410.62 Mya451 Mya382 Mya

25 occurrences of Temperoceras 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

25 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

2 formations

Kess-Kess — 30.95°N, 4.05°WFluminimaggiore — 39.43°N, 8.50°EFluminimaggiore — 39.32°N, 8.53°E

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The named rock units Temperoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Temperoceras and its relatives

Devonian

Where Temperoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Temperoceras, 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

7 references

Each of the 25 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Temperoceras 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 Temperoceras, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGeisonoceratidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barskov 1960