Oppeliidae

Oppeliidae are compressed to oxyconic, sculptured Haploceratoidea, either unkeeled, unicarinate, bicarinate, or tricarinate; with sutures in great variety, but ribbing usually more or less falcoid or falcate. The Oppeliidae is the principal family of the Haploceratoidea, with the longest duration, extending from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) to the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Their derivation is from the Hildoceratoidea.

Oppeliidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HaploceratoideaPBDB
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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 1800 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 703 of 1800 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 939 of 1800 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 158 of 1800 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1800 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 7 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 18 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 48 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 127 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 276 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 290 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 273 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 142 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 116 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 97 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 93 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 100 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 56 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 8 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 7 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 3 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 8 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 59 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 20 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 19 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 11 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–104 Mya — about 5 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 5 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences170.9 Mya106.3 Mya176 Mya99 Mya

1,800 occurrences of Oppeliidae on record, most of them in the Late 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

1,800 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

134 formations

Marnes à Spongiaires — 46.72°N, 0.02°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.66°N, 0.13°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.31°N, 0.45°WMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.38°N, 0.05°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.77°N, 0.02°EMarnes à Spongiaires — 46.64°N, 0.17°EGuasasa — 22.27°N, 84.07°WGuasasa — 22.37°N, 84.05°WGuasasa — 22.57°N, 83.87°WGuasasa — 22.60°N, 83.78°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.75°WGuasasa — 22.67°N, 83.55°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ESanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.32°ESanganeh — 37.72°N, 56.12°ESanganeh — 37.78°N, 56.33°EVaca Muerta — 38.67°S, 70.00°WVaca Muerta — 39.22°S, 70.07°WVaca Muerta — 38.59°S, 70.13°WVaca Muerta — 39.71°S, 69.75°WVaca Muerta — 39.53°S, 69.83°WVaca Muerta — 39.85°S, 69.83°W"Sengenthal" — 49.23°N, 11.47°ETheoi Marls — 46.40°N, 0.06°WTheoi Marls — 46.73°N, 0.00°W"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EBirmensdorf — 47.47°N, 8.04°EBirmensdorf — 47.48°N, 8.06°ELotena — 37.23°S, 70.37°WLotena — 39.00°S, 70.00°WLotena — 38.00°S, 70.50°WLotena — 37.00°S, 70.50°WLotena — 38.00°S, 71.00°WLotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WLotena — 36.22°S, 69.88°WLotena — 36.83°S, 71.00°WLotena — 36.00°S, 69.90°WLotena — 38.62°S, 70.17°WRio Mayer — 49.00°S, 72.00°WRio Mayer — 48.92°S, 72.08°WRio Mayer — 48.92°S, 71.92°WRio Mayer — 49.40°S, 71.82°WAgoudim — 32.24°N, 4.26°WYatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WTangiduval — 37.71°N, 66.61°ETangiduval — 37.97°N, 66.73°EMörnsheim — 48.00°N, 10.00°ELes Graous — 43.84°N, 7.08°ENaifa — 14.28°N, 48.55°ENaifa — 14.27°N, 48.56°ENaifa — 14.31°N, 48.43°EBugarone — 43.75°N, 13.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.28°N, 78.02°ESpiti Shale — 32.32°N, 77.95°EDalichai — 37.09°N, 56.74°EDalichai — 36.39°N, 54.29°EDietfurt — 49.95°N, 11.08°ESteinmühl — 47.91°N, 14.35°EMarnes de Latrecey — 47.98°N, 4.85°ELa Caja — 23.63°N, 100.85°WLa Caja — 23.62°N, 100.85°W

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The named rock units Oppeliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 110 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,052 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oppeliidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Oppeliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 770 sites for Oppeliidae, and this reads 240 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

178 references

Each of the 1,800 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. 166 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 Oppeliidae

Credit
W Krawczyński
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oppeliidae 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.

The description on this site

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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 itHaploceratoidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonarelli 1894