Ataphrus (Ataphrus)

Ataphrus (Ataphrus)

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AtaphrusPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences184.2 Mya72.2 Mya195 Mya63 Mya

6 occurrences of Ataphrus (Ataphrus) 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

6 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

3 formations

Mutsuo — 34.35°N, 135.34°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 9.90°EHiraiga — 39.94°N, 141.95°E

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The named rock units Ataphrus (Ataphrus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ataphrus (Ataphrus) and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ataphrus (Ataphrus) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ataphrus (Ataphrus), 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

4 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Ataphrus (Ataphrus)

Source
GBIF
Credit
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ataphrus (Ataphrus) was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itAtaphrus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1869