Staufenia discoidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StaufeniaPBDB
- 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 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Staufenia discoidea 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
6 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
- Achdorf Formation5
- Braunjura beta Formation · Braunjura Group1
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The named rock units Staufenia discoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Staufenia discoidea and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Staufenia discoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Ludwigia murchisonae4 sites
- Ludwigia depilata3 sites
- Ludwigia reflua3 sites
- Ludwigia subtuberculata3 sites
- Ludwigia tuberata3 sites
- Brasilia elmii2 sites
- Brasilia falcatiformis2 sites
- Brasilia howarthi2 sites
- Brasilia theobaldi2 sites
- Ludwigia armipotens2 sites
- Brasilia baldii1 site
- Brasilia bradfordensis1 site
- Inoceramus (Mytiloceramus)1 site
- Ludwigia fueloepi1 site
- Ludwigia gradata1 site
- Meleagrinella1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Planammatoceras planinsigne1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Staufenia discoidea, 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 and stratigraphy of the Achdorf Formation (Braunjura Group; Aalenian) at the Wochenberg hill near Schömberg-Schörzingen (W Swabian Alb, SW Germany)5
- The Aalenian at the Type Locality1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Staufenia discoidea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Staufenia discoidea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itStaufenia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1886)