Oxycerites

Oxycerites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the haploceratoid family, Oppeliidae, that lived during the Middle Jurassic.

Oxycerites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OppeliidaePBDB
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 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 106 of 113 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 113 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 113 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–168 Mya — about 5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 41 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 38 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 10 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 10 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168.2 Mya125.77 Mya172 Mya120 Mya

113 occurrences of Oxycerites on record, most of them in the Middle 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

113 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

21 formations

"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EChinitna — 59.89°N, 153.07°WChinitna — 59.89°N, 153.03°WChinitna — 59.71°N, 153.23°WChinitna — 59.68°N, 153.27°WChinitna — 59.67°N, 153.39°WDalichai — 37.09°N, 56.74°EDalichai — 36.39°N, 54.29°EMeulam — 39.70°N, 54.47°EMeulam — 39.72°N, 54.44°EMeulam — 39.90°N, 54.29°ETangiduval — 37.71°N, 66.61°ETangiduval — 37.97°N, 66.73°ELos Molles — 37.26°S, 70.50°WLos Molles — 37.23°S, 70.37°WTsudakhar — 42.34°N, 47.16°ETsudakhar — 42.47°N, 46.65°EBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.23°EIfenthal — 47.46°N, 7.50°ECalcaires de Caen — 49.42°N, 0.40°EVarians Oolith — 48.83°N, 10.35°ESan Lucas — 18.60°N, 100.82°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ELotena — 37.45°S, 70.43°WVardekloft — 71.40°N, 23.45°WShelikof — 57.37°N, 156.49°WKoshadjulba — 39.68°N, 54.40°EBaisun — 37.71°N, 66.61°ETorcazas — 23.12°S, 69.00°WValea Latǎ — 45.70°N, 25.41°E

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The named rock units Oxycerites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxycerites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Oxycerites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

571 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Oxycerites, 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

30 references

Each of the 113 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. 18 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 content2

Picture of Oxycerites

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

The description on this site

Licence
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 itOppeliidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rollier 1909)