Ochetoceras
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OchetoceratinaePBDB
- 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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
74 occurrences of Ochetoceras 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 occurrencesThese 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
13 formations
- Yatova Formation9
- Theoi Marls Formation8
- Birmensdorf Formation8
- Arimine Formation4
- "Hartmannshof" Formation3
- Marnes de Latrecey Formation2
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The named rock units Ochetoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ochetoceras and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ochetoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
424 taxa- Perisphinctes16 sites
- Taramelliceras11 sites
- Euaspidoceras10 sites
- Trimarginites arolicus9 sites
- Glochiceras8 sites
- Lithacoceras8 sites
- Trimarginites8 sites
- Mirosphinctes7 sites
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomoceras) bifurcatus7 sites
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes)7 sites
- Epipeltoceras6 sites
- Aspidoceras5 sites
- Euaspidoceras oegir5 sites
- Idoceras5 sites
- Orthosphinctes5 sites
- Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) callicerum5 sites
- Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) sarasini5 sites
- Amoeboceras alternans4 sites
- Argovithyris4 sites
- Belemnites4 sites
- Exogyra4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Ichthyosaurus4 sites
- Lacunosella (Lacunosella) arolica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Ochetoceras, 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
20 references- Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung12
- Middle to Upper Jurassic (Callovian-Kimmeridgian) in the Arcos Plateau (Arino-Oliere area, eastern Iberian chain, Spain): Taphonomic analysis and biostratigraphy9
- Les "Marnes à theoi" de Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres, France), Sous-Zone à Antecedens (Oxfordien moyen, Zone à Plicatilis): diversité des faunes et découverte de nouvelles espèces d'ammonites [The "Theoi Marls" of Pamproux (Deux-Sèvres department, France), Antecedens Sub-zone (Middle Oxfordian, Plicatilis Zone): faunal diversity and discovery of new ammonite species]8
- L'Oxfordien dans la moitié sud du Jura francais - etude stratigraphique8
- Les Terebratulidés de l'Oxfordien du Jura et de la bordure sud du Bassin de Paris6
- Beiträge zur Stratigraphie und Paläontologie des Juras von Ostspanien, V: Stratigraphie und Fazies im präbetischen Jura von Albacete und Nord-Murcia [Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Jurassic of eastern Spain, part 5: Stratigraphy and facies in the Prebetic Jurassic of Albacete and northern Murcia]5
- A new Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) ammonite assemblage from the Arimine Formation (Tetori Group) in the Arimine area, southeastern Toyama Prefecture, northern Central Japan4
- El Jurásico de Cerritos Bayos [The Jurassic of Cerritos Bayos]4
- Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]3
- Im Reich der Meerengel. Der Nusplinger Plattenkalk und seine Fossilien2
- L'Oxfordien moyen et supérieur de l'Est du Bassin Parisien (France). L'exemple de Latrecey (Haute-Marne): aspects fauniques, paléoenvironnementaux et stratigraphiques2
- Untersuchungen zur Paläontologie der Cephalopoden des Unter-Tithon der Südlichen Frankenalb2
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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 content2
Picture of Ochetoceras
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itOchetoceratinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.