Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes)

Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes)

Kurt Meiers · 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
OrthosphinctesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 152.21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 20 of 20 occurrencesLate Jurassic158–158 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158.4 Mya151.7 Mya

20 occurrences of Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) 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

20 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

2 formations

Dietfurt — 49.95°N, 11.08°ERosso Ammonitico — 38.00°N, 12.00°E

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The named rock units Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes), 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

6 references

Each of the 20 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 content2

Picture of Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kurt Meiers
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthosphinctes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schindewolf 1925