Torleyoceras oxyacantha
No picture of Torleyoceras oxyacantha 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 Torleyoceras oxyacantha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TorleyocerasPBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Torleyoceras oxyacantha 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Torleyoceras oxyacantha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Torleyoceras oxyacantha and its relatives
DevonianWhere Torleyoceras oxyacantha and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Dimeroceras mamilliferum2 sites
- Dimeroceras petterae2 sites
- Paratornoceras lentiforme2 sites
- Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) sacculus1 site
- Dimeroceras1 site
- Dimeroceras padbergense1 site
- Epitornoceras peracutum1 site
- Puncticeras schmidti1 site
- Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras)1 site
- Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) biferum1 site
- Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) latilobatum1 site
- Tornoceras simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Torleyoceras oxyacantha, 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
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.
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No picture of Torleyoceras oxyacantha 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 Torleyoceras oxyacantha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Torleyoceras oxyacantha 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 itTorleyoceras through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sandberger and Sandberger 1851)