Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus
Kurt Meiers · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes)PBDB
- 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 most 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Dorsetensia romani1 site
- Ermoceras (Telermoceras) coronatoides1 site
- Modiola solenoides1 site
- Oppelia (Oppelia) subradiata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Bajocian ammonites from Msata hill (Lugoba Formation) in the hinterland of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania1
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez1
Each of the 2 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 Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) angustus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kurt Meiers
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douvillé 1916)