Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColostraconPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 201 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 201 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 183 of 201 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 201 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 201 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 201 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous239–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–197 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 14 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 89 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 78 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–175 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–154 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences233.6 Mya119.57 Mya239 Mya111 Mya

201 occurrences of Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) on record, most of them in the Early 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

201 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

8 formations

Kalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EAmaltheenton — 49.55°N, 11.13°EAmaltheenton — 52.07°N, 8.31°EAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EKarkar — 37.50°N, 71.00°ESandgate — 51.00°N, 0.83°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 119 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Colostracon (Ovactaeonina), 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

19 references

Each of the 201 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. 7 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

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No picture of Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Colostracon (Ovactaeonina), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Colostracon (Ovactaeonina) 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 itColostracon through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1895)