Odontochitina

Odontochitina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 107 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 80 of 107 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 107 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 107 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 107 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 12 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 15 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 16 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 16 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya56 Mya145 Mya32 Mya

107 occurrences of Odontochitina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

107 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

17 formations

Santa Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSanta Marta — 64.23°S, 56.62°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WSanta Marta — 64.21°S, 57.18°WSanta Marta — 64.27°S, 57.30°WAlta Vista — 50.49°S, 72.58°WHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°ELópez de Bertodano — 63.99°S, 57.43°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EKotick Point — 63.86°S, 58.09°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.04°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WPedersen — 63.92°S, 58.25°WHidden Like — 63.84°S, 57.90°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WLa Anita — 49.81°S, 72.18°WTalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°ELagrelius Point — 63.94°S, 58.29°WJackson — 36.42°N, 89.56°WLopez de Bertodano — 63.88°S, 57.60°W

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The named rock units Odontochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odontochitina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Odontochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Odontochitina, 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

17 references

Each of the 107 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. 5 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 content1

Picture of Odontochitina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Odontochitina 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 itCeratiaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1935