Ooliticia

Ooliticia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucycloscalinaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 6 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous194–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184.2 Mya121.4 Mya194 Mya112 Mya

15 occurrences of Ooliticia on record, most of them in the Early 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

15 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

8 formations

Cleveland Ironstone — 54.56°N, 0.78°WCleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WCarmel — 37.28°N, 112.51°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WKimigahama — 35.72°N, 140.72°ECape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Ooliticia 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.

Ooliticia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ooliticia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ooliticia, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 Ooliticia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ooliticia 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 itEucycloscalinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.