Oxycerites orbis
No picture of Oxycerites orbis 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 Oxycerites orbis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OxyceritesPBDB
- 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 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Oxycerites orbis on record, most of them in the Middle 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- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Oxycerites orbis 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.
Oxycerites orbis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Oxycerites orbis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Oxycerites (Paroecotraustes) maubeugei4 sites
- Oxycerites (Oxycerites) fuscoides3 sites
- Plesiochoffatia3 sites
- Bullatimorphites2 sites
- Choffatia2 sites
- Choffatia arisphinctoides2 sites
- Choffatia subbackeriae2 sites
- Homoeoplanulites2 sites
- Homoeoplanulites homoeomorphus2 sites
- Macrocephalites2 sites
- Oxycerites (Paroecotraustes) waageni2 sites
- Prohecticoceras2 sites
- Prohecticoceras blanazense2 sites
- Acanthothiris spinosa1 site
- Actinostreon1 site
- Albanesiceras damianoi1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Bomburites)1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Bullatimorphites)1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras)1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Sphaeroptychius) lucasi1 site
- Cadomites (Cadomites) bremeri1 site
- Cadomites (Polyplectites) richei1 site
- Calliphylloceras disputabile1 site
- Choffatia acuticosta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oxycerites orbis, 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- Bajocian-Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites from the Polish Jura. Part 1: Families Phylloceratidae, Nannolytoceratidae, Sonniniidae, Strigoceratidae, Oppeliidae and Lissoceratidae4
- Occurrences of the ammonite genus Clydoniceras Blake, 1905 in the Middle Jurassic (Upper Bathonian, Discus Zone) of NW Switzerland2
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]2
- Morphoceratid ammonites from the Upper Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of Monte Kumeta, western Sicily1
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.
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No picture of Oxycerites orbis 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 Oxycerites orbis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oxycerites orbis 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 itOxycerites through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Giebel 1852)