Cotteswoldia subcompta

Cotteswoldia subcompta (Branco, 1879), a relative of Cotteswoldia subcompta — not Cotteswoldia subcompta itself

Not Cotteswoldia subcompta. This is Cotteswoldia subcompta (Branco, 1879), a relative — both are Hildoceratidae.

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
PleydelliaPBDB
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 9.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 32 of 32 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 32 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

32 occurrences of Cotteswoldia subcompta 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

32 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

2 formations

Jurensismergel — 49.91°N, 11.46°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°ETölgyhát — 47.73°N, 18.52°E

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The named rock units Cotteswoldia subcompta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cotteswoldia subcompta and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Cotteswoldia subcompta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cotteswoldia subcompta, 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

3 references

Each of the 32 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 content1

Picture of Cotteswoldia subcompta (Branco, 1879)

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

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 itPleydellia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branco 1879)