Ornatoscyllium pattersoni

No picture of Ornatoscyllium pattersoni 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 Ornatoscyllium pattersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrnatoscylliumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 9.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya165.3 Mya183.4 Mya161 Mya

3 occurrences of Ornatoscyllium pattersoni on record. 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

3 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 the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ornatoscyllium pattersoni, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Ornatoscyllium pattersoni 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 Ornatoscyllium pattersoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ornatoscyllium pattersoni 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thies 1983)