Ornatoscyllium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrectolobiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Time the record covers
At least 63 million years on record.
The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
11 occurrences of Ornatoscyllium on record, most of them in the Early 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ornatoscyllium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ornatoscyllium and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Ornatoscyllium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Elasmobranchii4 sites
- Palidiplospinax4 sites
- Toarcibatis elongata4 sites
- Eoscyllium duffini3 sites
- Jurascyllium magnum3 sites
- Lissodus3 sites
- Paraorthacodus3 sites
- Protospinax3 sites
- Pseudonotidanus semirugosus3 sites
- Annea maubeugei2 sites
- Cristabatis crescentiformis2 sites
- Folipistrix2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Palaeobrachaelurus2 sites
- Palaeobrachaelurus alisonae2 sites
- Palaeobrachaelurus aperizostus2 sites
- Palidiplospinax enniskilleni2 sites
- Paracestracion sarstedtensis2 sites
- Toarcibatis brevicristata2 sites
- Toarcibatis multicristata2 sites
- Acrocoelites1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Akaimia altucuspis1 site
- Annea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ornatoscyllium, 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
5 references- Toarcian shark and ray faunas (Chondrichthyans) from Luxembourg and Belgium in the aftermath of the T-OAE6
- Vier neue Neoselachier-Haiarten aus der NW-deutschen Unterkreide2
- Neoselachian Sharks from the Callovian-Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec Zawiercie Region, Southern Poland1
- Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic)1
- Jurazeitliche Neoselachier aus Deutschland und S-England (Jurassic neoselachians from German and S-England)1
Each of the 11 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 Ornatoscyllium
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- 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 itOrectolobiformes through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Underwood and Ward 2004