Odontochitina operculata

Odontochitina operculata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontochitinaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121.4 Mya83.6 Mya127 Mya65 Mya

27 occurrences of Odontochitina operculata on record, most of them in the Late 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

27 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

6 formations

Santa Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WSanta Marta — 64.21°S, 57.18°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°W

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The named rock units Odontochitina operculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Odontochitina operculata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Odontochitina operculata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Odontochitina operculata, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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 content1

Picture of Odontochitina operculata

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iDigBio
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Odontochitina operculata 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 itOdontochitina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1935