Oxytropidoceras

Oxytropidoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MojsisovicziinaePBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 248 of 249 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 249 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 10 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 37 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 37 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 37 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 33 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 15 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 15 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 15 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 15 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 15 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 13 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110.1 Mya89.8 Mya113.8 Mya85.2 Mya

249 occurrences of Oxytropidoceras 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

249 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

23 formations

Hilo — 3.67°N, 74.89°WWalnut Clay — 31.08°N, 97.61°WWalnut Clay — 31.00°N, 97.60°WWalnut Clay — 31.07°N, 97.44°WWalnut Clay — 31.04°N, 97.44°WWalnut Clay — 31.17°N, 97.58°WWalnut Clay — 31.05°N, 97.52°WWalnut Clay — 32.07°N, 97.50°WWalnut Clay — 32.26°N, 99.13°WComanche Peak Limestone — 31.00°N, 97.62°WComanche Peak Limestone — 31.66°N, 97.47°WComanche Peak Limestone — 31.92°N, 97.60°WComanche Peak Limestone — 32.00°N, 97.59°WComanche Peak Limestone — 30.99°N, 98.10°WMzinene — 27.90°S, 32.32°EMzinene — 27.59°S, 32.23°EMzinene — 27.32°S, 32.21°EMzinene — 26.93°S, 32.27°EMzinene — 27.69°S, 32.30°EBenevides — 30.38°N, 104.93°WBenevides — 30.19°N, 104.82°WBenevides — 30.52°N, 104.98°WGoodland Limestone — 33.62°N, 97.25°WGoodland Limestone — 33.65°N, 97.38°WKeys Valley Marl — 31.06°N, 97.46°WKeys Valley Marl — 30.99°N, 98.10°WKeys Valley Marl — 32.13°N, 99.17°WLa Puya — 9.83°N, 70.05°WLa Puya — 10.24°N, 69.70°WKiowa — 37.31°N, 99.81°WKiowa — 37.28°N, 99.66°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WUomba — 8.00°N, 8.70°EPariatambo — 6.77°S, 78.62°WPariatambo — 9.37°S, 77.58°WPariatambo — 9.87°S, 76.99°WChonta — 4.47°S, 77.62°WNapo — 1.03°S, 77.65°WBenevides — 29.59°N, 102.87°WHalal — 30.79°N, 33.48°EHalal — 30.80°N, 33.57°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EOued Tidzi — 31.21°N, 7.88°WBacolet — 11.17°N, 60.75°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.96°N, 6.68°ERiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WYumagual — 6.25°S, 78.83°WRobles — 18.23°N, 66.23°WCuio — 12.92°S, 13.07°E

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The named rock units Oxytropidoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxytropidoceras and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Oxytropidoceras, 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

26 references

Each of the 249 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. 14 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

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Picture of Oxytropidoceras

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stieler 1920