Choicensisphinctes platyconus
No picture of Choicensisphinctes platyconus 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 platyconus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChoicensisphinctesPBDB
- 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 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Choicensisphinctes platyconus 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
22 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
1 formation
- Vaca Muerta Formation · Mendoza Group22
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The named rock units Choicensisphinctes platyconus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Choicensisphinctes platyconus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Choicensisphinctes platyconus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Catutosphinctes guenenakenensis3 sites
- Indansites picunleufuense2 sites
- Aspidoceratidae1 site
- Cieneguiticeras perlaevis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Choicensisphinctes platyconus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Tithonian stratigraphy and ammonite fauna of the Vaca Muerta Formation in Mallín Quemado (Neuquén Basin, Argentina), with remarks on the Andean chronostratigraphy9
- The Tithonian ammonite fauna of the transect Cerro Lotena Cerro Granito, Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina. I. Family Himalayitidae8
- The Tithonian ammonite fauna and stratigraphy of Picun Leufu, southern Neuquen Basin, Argentina3
- Andean Lower Tithonian (Picunleufuense Zone) ammonites and aptychus from Estancia Maria Juana, Southern Neuquén Basin, Argentina2
Each of the 22 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 platyconus 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 platyconus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Choicensisphinctes platyconus 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 itChoicensisphinctes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parent et al. 2011