Choicensisphinctes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZapaliinaePBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
74 occurrences of Choicensisphinctes on record, most of them in the Late 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
74 occurrences- Late 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
- Vaca Muerta Formation · Mendoza Group67
- Banos del Flaco Formation5
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The named rock units Choicensisphinctes 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.
Choicensisphinctes and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Choicensisphinctes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Pseudolissoceras zitteli5 sites
- Catutosphinctes guenenakenensis4 sites
- Cieneguiticeras perlaevis4 sites
- Virgatosphinctes scythicus3 sites
- Aspidoceratidae2 sites
- Aulacosphinctes proximus2 sites
- Indansites picunleufuense2 sites
- Physodoceras2 sites
- Sutneria2 sites
- Aulacostephanus1 site
- Berriasella1 site
- Catutosphinctes1 site
- Corongoceras evolutum1 site
- Lithacoceras malarguense1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Micracanthoceras microcanthum1 site
- Micracanthoceras spinulosum1 site
- Neocomites1 site
- Notodectes argentinus1 site
- Oplites ? wallichi1 site
- Pasottia andina1 site
- Reineckeia1 site
- Subvinalesphinctes prophetae1 site
- Tetrapoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Choicensisphinctes, 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
7 references- The Tithonian ammonite fauna of the transect Cerro Lotena Cerro Granito, Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina. I. Family Himalayitidae44
- Tithonian stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Vaca Muerta Formation in Mallín Quemado (Neuquén Basin, Argentina), with remarks on the Andean chronostratigraphy12
- The Tithonian ammonite fauna and stratigraphy of Picun Leufu, southern Neuquen Basin, Argentina9
- Tithonian–Berriasian ammonites from the Baños del Flaco Formation, central Chile5
- Andean Lower Tithonian (Picunleufuense Zone) ammonites and aptychus from Estancia Maria Juana, Southern Neuquén Basin, Argentina2
- Carta Guatacondo, Región de Tarapacá. Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica 156, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000.1
- Presencia de un plesiosaurio en Mendoza [Presence of a plesiosaur in Mendoza]1
Each of the 74 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 Choicensisphinctes was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Choicensisphinctes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Choicensisphinctes was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZapaliinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leanza 1980