Ampullospira

Ampullospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmpullospirinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 215 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 149 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 149 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 50 of 149 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 45 of 149 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 149 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 149 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 149 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 149 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 149 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 149 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 149 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 149 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 149 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 7 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 43 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 43 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 9 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–73 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences73–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–8.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.7–700 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227.3 Mya11.63 Mya242 Mya700 ka

149 occurrences of Ampullospira 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

149 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

35 formations

Shuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WTataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.73°N, 10.48°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.37°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.30°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EFődolomit — 46.93°N, 17.40°EFődolomit — 46.97°N, 17.35°EFődolomit — 47.13°N, 17.81°EGansingen Dolomite — 47.53°N, 8.13°ENanggulan — 7.73°S, 110.18°ENanggulan — 7.48°S, 110.05°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EPindiro Shales — 9.43°S, 39.43°EPindiro Shales — 9.31°S, 39.38°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°EPindiga — 10.28°N, 11.32°EPindiga — 9.98°N, 10.93°EBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WTuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EKhuiala — 27.86°N, 72.93°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.75°N, 46.08°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WGoradongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ESan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WDachstein Limestone — 47.54°N, 19.01°E

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The named rock units Ampullospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ampullospira and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,047 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Ampullospira, 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

43 references

Each of the 149 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. 31 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 content1

Picture of Ampullospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ampullospira was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAmpullospirinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Harris 1897)