Olcostephanus atherstoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlcostephanusPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 60 of 60 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous137–137 Mya — about 4 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 5 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 5 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 5 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 5 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 5 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 5 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 5 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.6 Mya125.3 Mya

60 occurrences of Olcostephanus atherstoni on record, most of them in the Early 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

60 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

10 formations

Agrio — 38.98°S, 68.00°WAgrio — 37.42°S, 70.33°WAgrio — 37.27°S, 70.48°WPunta del Cobre — 27.57°S, 70.29°WPunta del Cobre — 27.54°S, 70.30°WTaraises — 24.59°N, 101.52°WTaraises — 24.81°N, 101.70°WTaraises — 24.61°N, 101.57°WArgiles Brunes — 32.38°N, 9.25°WMogyorósdomb Limestone — 47.17°N, 17.79°ESidi Lhousseine — 31.21°N, 7.88°WRossfeld — 47.79°N, 14.52°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EBrasov — 45.70°N, 25.45°EAbundancia — 27.46°S, 70.24°W

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The named rock units Olcostephanus atherstoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olcostephanus atherstoni and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Olcostephanus atherstoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Olcostephanus atherstoni, 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

23 references

Each of the 60 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. 11 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 Olcostephanus atherstoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Olcostephanus atherstoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Olcostephanus atherstoni 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 itOlcostephanus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sharpe 1856)