Vassaroceras henrietta
No picture of Vassaroceras henrietta 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 Vassaroceras henrietta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VassarocerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektobenthic, solitaryPBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ellesmerocerida
Time the record covers
At most 1.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 481.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Vassaroceras henrietta 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
- Rochdale Formation · Beekmantown Group3
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The named rock units Vassaroceras henrietta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vassaroceras henrietta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Vassaroceras henrietta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Bassleroceras vassarina2 sites
- Dwightoceras dactyloides2 sites
- Paraendoceras depressum2 sites
- Paraendoceras wappingerense2 sites
- Bassleroceras1 site
- Bassleroceras champlainense1 site
- Bassleroceras microscopium1 site
- Bassleroceras smithbasinense1 site
- Bassleroceras spissiseptum1 site
- Bassleroceras triangulum1 site
- Campbelloceras1 site
- Clitendoceras saylesi1 site
- Ectenolites1 site
- Exoclitendoceras rochdalense1 site
- Mcqueenoceras jeffersonense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Vassaroceras henrietta, 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Vassaroceras henrietta 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 Vassaroceras henrietta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vassaroceras henrietta 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 itVassaroceras through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dwight 1884)