Ophthalmosaurinae

Ophthalmosaurinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphthalmosauridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 50 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 50 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 25 of 50 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 50 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 6 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 5 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 6 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 9 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya106.3 Mya204 Mya92 Mya

50 occurrences of Ophthalmosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late 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

50 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

14 formations

Oxford Clay — 52.00°N, 0.70°WOxford Clay — 52.57°N, 0.23°WOxford Clay — 50.61°N, 2.45°WOxford Clay — 52.56°N, 0.29°WSundance — 43.65°N, 106.78°WSundance — 44.57°N, 108.05°WSundance — 42.84°N, 107.59°WSundance — 44.55°N, 104.12°WVaca Muerta — 39.19°S, 69.67°WVaca Muerta — 38.83°S, 70.20°WVaca Muerta — 38.11°S, 70.50°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.24°WSpeeton Clay — 54.21°N, 0.29°WWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.20°N, 0.13°ELos Molles — 39.25°S, 70.30°WLa Casita — 24.96°N, 100.97°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.49°N, 0.33°WAgardhfjellet — 78.34°N, 15.83°ETuxedni — 62.03°N, 147.29°WLa Caja — 25.04°N, 100.95°WGault — 51.08°N, 1.18°ELoon River — 60.02°N, 116.95°WKcynia — 51.38°N, 20.14°E

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The named rock units Ophthalmosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophthalmosaurinae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ophthalmosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Ophthalmosaurinae, 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

36 references

Each of the 50 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. 24 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 Ophthalmosaurinae

Credit
User:Captmondo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ophthalmosaurinae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itOphthalmosauridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baur 1887