Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus)

Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus)

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
OlcostephanusPBDB
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 most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 182 of 182 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous137–137 Mya — about 8 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 11 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 11 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 11 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 11 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 11 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 11 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 11 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 11 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 11 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 11 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 5 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 4 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–130 Mya — about 4 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 4 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences137.6 Mya125.3 Mya

182 occurrences of Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) 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

182 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

15 formations

Agrio — 38.30°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 38.15°S, 70.10°WAgrio — 34.50°S, 69.67°WAgrio — 37.43°S, 70.45°WAgrio — 37.52°S, 70.00°WAgrio — 37.65°S, 70.22°WAgrio — 37.93°S, 70.12°WAgrio — 38.05°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 38.35°S, 69.92°WAgrio — 38.38°S, 70.03°WAgrio — 38.73°S, 69.90°WAgrio — 39.45°S, 70.32°WBersek Marl — 47.75°N, 18.50°EMaiolica — 43.47°N, 12.72°ETaraises — 24.70°N, 103.50°WTaraises — 24.61°N, 101.57°WBiancone — 45.58°N, 11.12°EGiumal — 32.31°N, 78.03°EEl Mergueb — 36.84°N, 9.62°ERossfeld — 47.69°N, 13.66°ERossfeld — 47.80°N, 14.48°ELadce — 49.03°N, 18.28°ESidi Lhousseine — 31.21°N, 7.88°WArgiles Brunes — 32.38°N, 9.25°WGaita — 40.26°N, 0.07°EWłocławek — 51.50°N, 20.06°EPunta del Cobre — 27.56°S, 70.29°WAbundancia — 27.46°S, 70.24°W

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The named rock units Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 109 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 164 sites for Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus), 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

26 references

Each of the 182 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. 14 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 Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wahl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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

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What may have been alongside itOlcostephanus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1875