Choffatia baluchistanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChoffatiaPBDB
- 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 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Choffatia baluchistanensis 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.
Choffatia baluchistanensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Choffatia baluchistanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Macrocephalites4 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea3 sites
- Homoeoplanulites balinensis3 sites
- Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides3 sites
- Nothocephalites3 sites
- Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus3 sites
- Actinostreon marshi2 sites
- Calliphylloceras disputabile2 sites
- Ceromya concentrica2 sites
- Grossouvria crassa2 sites
- Holcophylloceras mediterraneum2 sites
- Indocephalites2 sites
- Indosphinctes peregrinus2 sites
- Indosphinctes urbanus2 sites
- Ptychophylloceras flabellatum2 sites
- Subgrossouvria gudjinsirensis2 sites
- Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans2 sites
- Alcidia1 site
- Angulaticeras1 site
- Arca1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Bullatimorphites (Kheraiceras)1 site
- Ceratomya1 site
- Choffatia furcula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Choffatia baluchistanensis, 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
2 references- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires5
- Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule II (Bathonien, Callovien). Pl. VI-XXXIII1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Choffatia baluchistanensis 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 Choffatia baluchistanensis, 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 itChoffatia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Noetling 1896)