Oxynoticeras

Oxynoticeras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OxynoticeratidaePBDB
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 least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 84 of 86 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 86 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 86 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous201–199 Mya — about 12 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 28 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 28 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 13 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192.9 Mya137.05 Mya201 Mya131 Mya

86 occurrences of Oxynoticeras 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

86 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

8 formations

Huayacocotla — 20.33°N, 98.22°WIsztimér — 47.18°N, 17.83°EIsztimér Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.90°EInklin — 59.33°N, 133.72°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAdnet — 47.14°N, 9.84°EPabellón — 27.92°S, 70.00°WAin Ouarka — 32.71°N, 0.16°W

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The named rock units Oxynoticeras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 75 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxynoticeras and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Oxynoticeras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Oxynoticeras, 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

16 references

Each of the 86 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Oxynoticeras

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

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

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 itOxynoticeratidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hyatt 1874)