Oecotraustes

Oecotraustes is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the ammonid family Oppeliidae and named by Wilhelm Waagen in 1869. Species in the genus lived during the Middle Jurassic.

Oecotraustes

Kurt Meiers · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OppeliidaePBDB
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 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 28 of 28 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–168 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168.6 Mya165.3 Mya171.4 Mya161 Mya

28 occurrences of Oecotraustes on record, most of them in the Middle 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

28 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

13 formations

"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ETsudakhar — 42.65°N, 46.93°ETsudakhar — 42.33°N, 47.60°EChaloi — 39.75°N, 54.50°EChaloi — 39.80°N, 54.38°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ETuxedni — 62.12°N, 147.70°WCuber — 39.85°N, 3.20°EKumukh — 42.65°N, 46.93°EMeulam — 39.94°N, 54.15°EKambe — 4.02°S, 39.55°EIfenthal — 47.46°N, 7.50°EDalichai — 36.39°N, 54.29°ELugoba — 6.36°S, 38.38°EValea Latǎ — 45.70°N, 25.41°E

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The named rock units Oecotraustes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oecotraustes and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Oecotraustes and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

233 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Oecotraustes, 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

15 references

Each of the 28 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Oecotraustes

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kurt Meiers
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOppeliidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Waagen 1869)