Octobrachia

No picture of Octobrachia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Octobrachia itself, so it was not used. 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 Octobrachia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeocoleoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 177 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 7 of 157 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 157 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 27 of 157 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 157 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 100 of 157 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 157 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 157 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 7 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 7 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 18 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 34 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 15 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 24 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 13 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences182.9 Mya5.333 Mya188 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Octobrachia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

157 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

45 formations

Niobrara — 38.90°N, 101.13°WNiobrara — 39.02°N, 99.50°WNiobrara — 38.90°N, 101.18°WNiobrara — 39.15°N, 99.35°WNiobrara — 38.77°N, 100.50°WSannine Limestone — 34.13°N, 35.75°EFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WFox Hills — 45.21°N, 101.22°WFox Hills — 45.76°N, 101.08°WFox Hills — 45.01°N, 101.10°WFox Hills — 45.08°N, 101.45°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WBearpaw — 49.55°N, 112.84°WBearpaw — 49.53°N, 112.86°WBearpaw — 50.67°N, 107.75°WPierre Shale — 49.20°N, 98.23°WPierre Shale — 49.37°N, 98.24°WSannine — 34.13°N, 35.74°EPierre Shale — 43.24°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 44.08°N, 102.44°WPierre Shale — 44.06°N, 102.46°WPender — 49.80°N, 125.16°WPender — 49.69°N, 125.03°WPender — 49.76°N, 125.13°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EJizera — 49.96°N, 16.06°EJizera — 50.50°N, 14.50°EBilá Hora — 49.97°N, 14.96°EBilá Hora — 50.31°N, 13.71°EBilá Hora — 50.08°N, 14.32°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EFujina — 35.44°N, 133.04°EFujina — 35.43°N, 133.07°EHaslam — 49.69°N, 125.04°WHaslam — 49.68°N, 125.05°WMörnsheim — 48.79°N, 10.90°EPesciara — 45.60°N, 11.20°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.75°N, 2.33°WKimmeridge Clay — 54.15°N, 0.23°WPainten — 48.92°N, 11.58°ESolnhofener Plattenkalk — 48.91°N, 11.38°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°EAllaru — 21.00°S, 143.30°EArgille Scagliose dei Peloritani — 38.01°N, 14.88°EChinomigawa — 42.91°N, 142.42°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°W

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The named rock units Octobrachia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Octobrachia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Octobrachia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

760 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Octobrachia, 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

52 references

Each of the 157 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. 40 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 content0

No picture of Octobrachia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Octobrachia itself, so it was not used.

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

No 3D scan of Octobrachia 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 itNeocoleoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fiorini 1981)