Ophionautilus catonis

Ophionautilus catonis

Roby Haas · 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
OphionautilusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 180.4 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170.9 Mya168.2 Mya180.9 Mya164.8 Mya

8 occurrences of Ophionautilus catonis 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

8 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

1 formation

Dhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°E

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The named rock units Ophionautilus catonis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophionautilus catonis and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ophionautilus catonis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ophionautilus catonis, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 Ophionautilus catonis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Roby Haas
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ophionautilus catonis 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 itOphionautilus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gemmellaro 1886)