Otostoma

Otostoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeritidaePBDB
Diet
omnivore, grazerPBDB, for Neritidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neritidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neritidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 15 of 40 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 40 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 40 occurrencesEocene173–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 8 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences168.2 Mya48.07 Mya173 Mya38 Mya

40 occurrences of Otostoma 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

40 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

19 formations

Hiraiga — 39.93°N, 141.94°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.99°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.88°EScripps — 32.84°N, 117.22°WTanohata — 39.93°N, 141.95°ETanohata — 39.83°N, 141.98°EKiowa — 38.73°N, 97.53°WMarnes de plage — 43.14°N, 0.95°ECalcarenites du Jadet — 43.14°N, 0.95°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WSchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 9.90°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EKaladongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAketo — 39.94°N, 141.94°EManiobra — 33.63°N, 115.68°WPoint Loma — 33.13°N, 117.30°WLadd — 33.55°N, 117.52°WVenedo — 39.27°N, 122.34°WQuebrada Monardes — 27.27°S, 69.39°WPiesting — 47.84°N, 16.11°E

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The named rock units Otostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otostoma and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Otostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

805 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Otostoma, 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

20 references

Each of the 40 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. 8 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 Otostoma

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

No 3D scan of Otostoma 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 itNeritidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Archaic 1859