Bochianites

Bochianites is a straight shelled ammonite which lived from the Upper Jurassic, Tithonian, to the Lower Cretaceous, Hauterivian in what is now Europe, Greenland, Africa, North America and Asia. The shell is long, narrow, moderately expanding; smooth or with weak to strong oblique annular ribs. Sutural elements are short and boxy. The umbilical lobe, which lies between the lateral lobe and dorsal lobe, on either side, is about the same size as the lobule dividing the first lateral saddle.

Bochianites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BochianitinaePBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 268 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 263 of 268 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 19 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 40 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 40 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 40 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 40 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 40 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 4 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences143.1 Mya132.6 Mya149.7 Mya125.3 Mya

268 occurrences of Bochianites 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

268 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

22 formations

Taraises — 24.70°N, 103.50°WTaraises — 24.59°N, 101.52°WTaraises — 24.61°N, 101.57°WRossfeld — 47.79°N, 14.52°EBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°EWłocławek — 51.50°N, 20.06°EMiravetes — 38.09°N, 1.89°WMiravetes — 38.07°N, 1.81°WBiancone — 45.58°N, 11.12°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°EEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°EPunta del Cobre — 27.56°S, 70.31°WPunta del Cobre — 27.54°S, 70.30°WRosa Blanca — 6.87°N, 73.24°WSidi Lhousseine — 31.21°N, 7.88°WSpartan Glacier — 70.75°S, 68.50°WWloclawek — 51.98°N, 19.02°EMraznica — 49.03°N, 18.33°EPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°ESundays River — 33.87°S, 25.60°EUmgazana — 31.68°S, 29.42°EPaskenta — 40.13°N, 122.23°WPalnatokes Bjerg — 74.50°N, 20.00°WMorro — 15.16°N, 23.18°WFranciscan — 35.14°N, 120.16°WDursztyn — 50.40°N, 19.06°E

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The named rock units Bochianites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 191 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bochianites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 257 sites for Bochianites, and this reads 240 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

41 references

Each of the 268 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. 29 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 Bochianites

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

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itBochianitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lory 1898