Loligosepia

Loligosepia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LoligosepiidaePBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 182.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence198–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–195 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence194–193 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–182 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences201.4 Mya184.2 Mya206.2 Mya182.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Loligosepia 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

12 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

Kössen — 47.48°N, 10.94°ESchistes Cartons — 44.67°N, 4.67°E

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The named rock units Loligosepia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Loligosepia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Loligosepia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Loligosepia, 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

4 references

Each of the 12 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

Picture of Loligosepia

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No 3D scan of Loligosepia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itLoligosepiidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1839