Oxyteuthis

Oxyteuthis is a genus of belemnite, an extinct group of cephalopods.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelemnitidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 13 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous138–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya125.77 Mya137.6 Mya120.9 Mya

13 occurrences of Oxyteuthis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

13 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

4 formations

Mount Goodenough — 67.95°N, 135.41°WBodzanow — 51.98°N, 19.02°ESubway — 52.00°N, 10.00°EKuhnpasset — 74.50°N, 20.35°W

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The named rock units Oxyteuthis 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.

Oxyteuthis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Oxyteuthis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Oxyteuthis, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Oxyteuthis 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 Oxyteuthis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itBelemnitida through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.