Orthacodidae

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexanchiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya125.77 Mya162.3 Mya120.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Orthacodidae 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

9 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

3 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EArtoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Orthacodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthacodidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Orthacodidae, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Orthacodidae 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 itHexanchiformes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glikman 1957