Gravesia gigas

No picture of Gravesia gigas was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Gravesia gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GravesiaPBDB
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 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya149.2 Mya155.3 Mya144.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Gravesia gigas 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

4 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

4 formations

Geisental — 48.75°N, 11.25°EMörnsheim — 48.00°N, 10.00°EReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°EHangende–Bankkalke — 47.93°N, 8.94°E

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

Gravesia gigas and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Gravesia gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gravesia gigas, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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

Media content0

No picture of Gravesia gigas was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Gravesia gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gravesia gigas 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 itGravesia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zieten 1830)