Oxynoticeras oxynotum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OxynoticerasPBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Oxynoticeras oxynotum 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
9 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Oxynoticeras oxynotum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oxynoticeras oxynotum and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Oxynoticeras oxynotum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Belemnitida4 sites
- Oxytoma inequivalvis4 sites
- Rhynchonellida4 sites
- Cheltonia acciptris3 sites
- Cincta numismalis3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Gleviceras glevense3 sites
- Lucinoidea3 sites
- Pectinida3 sites
- Plagiostoma3 sites
- Zeilleria perforata3 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Balanocrinus quiaiosensis2 sites
- Bifericeras2 sites
- Bifericeras bifer2 sites
- Crustacea2 sites
- Gleviceras doris2 sites
- Gryphaea2 sites
- Palaeoechioceras spirale2 sites
- Partschiceras2 sites
- Ryderia doris2 sites
- "Onychites" sp.1 site
- Acanthopleuroceras maugenesti1 site
- Arctoasteroceras1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oxynoticeras oxynotum, 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
4 references- A temporary exposure of Lower Lias (Late Sinemurian) at Dimmer Camp, Castle Cary, Somerset, south-west England5
- Austroalpine Liassic ammonites from Vorarlberg (Austria, Northern Calcareous Alps)2
- Carta Los Loros, Región de Atacama, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No 92, 53 p, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000, Santiago1
- New Mesozoic Brachiopods From Canada1
Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Oxynoticeras oxynotum
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No 3D scan of Oxynoticeras oxynotum was found in Sketchfab.
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 itOxynoticeras through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1843)