Choffatia

Choffatia

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudoperisphinctinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 193 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 189 of 193 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 193 occurrencesLate Jurassic175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 11 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 11 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 11 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 11 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 23 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 26 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 26 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 26 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 26 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 17 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya157.9 Mya175.2 Mya154.3 Mya

193 occurrences of Choffatia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

193 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

26 formations

Los Molles — 37.26°S, 70.50°WLos Molles — 37.23°S, 70.37°W"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ELotena — 39.00°S, 70.00°WLotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLotena — 36.22°S, 69.88°WLotena — 37.46°S, 70.47°WQal'eh Dokhtar — 33.87°N, 57.30°ETangiduval — 37.97°N, 66.73°ETangiduval — 37.71°N, 66.61°EAsiento — 26.52°S, 69.44°WAsiento — 26.58°S, 69.42°WMarnes à Digonella divionensis — 47.32°N, 5.00°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ESmithers — 54.55°N, 128.48°WDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.30°N, 46.33°EChari — 23.72°N, 69.06°EDalles à Bryozoaires — 47.32°N, 5.00°ECroûte ferrugineuse — 46.65°N, 4.87°EMarnes brunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°EMarnes jaunes — 46.65°N, 4.87°ELa Manga — 36.21°S, 69.87°WAshman — 54.78°N, 127.58°WMarnes grumeleuses — 46.57°N, 4.90°EBuqu — 33.77°N, 91.33°EChinitna — 59.67°N, 153.39°WAgua Fria — 14.02°N, 86.67°WCerritos Bayos — 22.56°S, 69.14°WKoshadzhulba — 39.94°N, 54.15°E

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The named rock units Choffatia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 121 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Choffatia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Choffatia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

553 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Choffatia, 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

30 references

Each of the 193 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Choffatia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Siemiradzki 1898)