Ocloedus
No picture of Ocloedus 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 Ocloedus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
6 occurrences of Ocloedus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- La Huérguina Formation2
- Wadhurst Clay Formation · Wealden Group1
- Woburn Sands Formation1
- Sandgate Formation1
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The named rock units Ocloedus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ocloedus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ocloedus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Caturus4 sites
- Pycnodontiformes4 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Bernissartiidae3 sites
- Egertonodus basanus3 sites
- Lepidotes3 sites
- Lonchidion breve3 sites
- Parvodus parvidens3 sites
- Planohybodus ensis3 sites
- Semionotiformes3 sites
- Theropoda3 sites
- Aspidorhynchiformes2 sites
- Brachyphyllum2 sites
- Chiloscyllium2 sites
- Crocodyliformes2 sites
- Crocodylomorpha2 sites
- Cylindrobullina2 sites
- Eostriatolamia2 sites
- Gyrodus2 sites
- Heterodontus2 sites
- Holocephali2 sites
- Lamnidae2 sites
- Leptostyrax stychi2 sites
- Pleuropholis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ocloedus, 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
5 references- Microvertebrates from the Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK, and Nutfield, Surrey, UK2
- Microvertebrates from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Ashdown Brickworks, East Sussex, UK1
- Scipionyx samniticus (Theropoda: Compsognathidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Italy: osteology, ontogenetic assessment, phylogeny, soft tissue anatomy, taphonomy and palaeobiology1
- The vertebrate assemblage of Buenache de la Sierra (upper Barremian of Serranía de Cuenca, Spain) with insights into its taphonomy and palaeoecology1
- Les Actiopterygiens juveniles du Cretace Inferieur du Montsec et de Las Hoyas (Espagne)1
Each of the 6 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 Ocloedus 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 Ocloedus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ocloedus 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 itPycnodontidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poyato-Ariza and Wenz 2002