Odontella

Odontella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriceratiaceaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 241 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 241 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 241 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 241 occurrencesPleistocene — about 219 of 241 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 64 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 164 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

241 occurrences of Odontella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

241 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

Daineji — 37.37°N, 141.04°EKylan — 59.92°N, 164.78°E

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The named rock units Odontella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 239 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odontella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Odontella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 239 sites for Odontella, 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

22 references

Each of the 241 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. 10 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Odontella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itTriceratiaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agardh 1832