Ovaticeras ovatum

Ovaticeras ovatum

Guy Kronz · 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
OvaticerasPBDB
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 1.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 182.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.7 Mya182.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Ovaticeras ovatum 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

5 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

2 formations

Jet Rock — 54.48°N, 0.58°WJet Rock — 54.46°N, 0.54°WJet Rock — 54.40°N, 0.49°WKisgerecse — 47.66°N, 18.47°E

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The named rock units Ovaticeras ovatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovaticeras ovatum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ovaticeras ovatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ovaticeras ovatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Ovaticeras ovatum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Guy Kronz
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itOvaticeras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young and Bird 1822)