Praeoppelia gracililobata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PraeoppeliaPBDB
- 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 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 168.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Praeoppelia gracililobata 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Praeoppelia gracililobata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Praeoppelia gracililobata and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Praeoppelia gracililobata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Bradfordia costata1 site
- Docidoceras cylindroides1 site
- Docidoceras wysogorskii1 site
- Docidoceras zemistephanoides1 site
- Fissilobiceras ovale1 site
- Hebetoxyites incongruens1 site
- Hebetoxyites mouterdei1 site
- Kleistoxyites protrusus1 site
- Mollistephanus ottiliae1 site
- Mollistephanus westermanni1 site
- Riccardiceras perfectum1 site
- Sonninia (Euhoploceras) adicra1 site
- Sonninia (Euhoploceras) berckhemeri1 site
- Strigoceras compressum1 site
- Trilobiticeras (Emileites) kecskemetii1 site
- Trilobiticeras (Emileites) malenotatus1 site
- Trilobiticeras (Trilobiticeras) platygaster1 site
- Westermannites chocsinskyi1 site
- Westermannites parvus1 site
- Witchellia jugifera1 site
- Witchellia sayni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Praeoppelia gracililobata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Ammonites, taphonomical analysis and biostratigraphy of the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) from Capo San Vigilio (Lake Garda, N Italy)3
- Ammonites from the Lower Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) beds of the classic locality of Bakonycsernye (Transdanubian Hungary), with special regard to the early otoitids and stephanoceratids1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Praeoppelia gracililobata 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 Praeoppelia gracililobata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Praeoppelia gracililobata 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 itPraeoppelia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vacek 1886)