Oxynoticeratidae

Oxynoticeratidae is a family of true ammonites included in the superfamily Psiloceratoidea.

Oxynoticeratidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsiloceratoideaPBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 378 of 380 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 380 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 380 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 380 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous201–199 Mya — about 44 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 104 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 104 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 56 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 21 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 22 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 21 occurrences185–182 Mya — about 4 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192.9 Mya137.05 Mya201 Mya131 Mya

380 occurrences of Oxynoticeratidae 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

380 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

23 formations

Huayacocotla — 19.98°N, 97.72°WHuayacocotla — 20.33°N, 98.22°WHuayacocotla — 20.36°N, 98.21°WOust — 36.52°N, 10.06°EOust — 36.37°N, 10.09°EOust — 36.35°N, 10.07°EOust — 36.24°N, 9.99°EIsztimér Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.90°EIsztimér Limestone — 46.98°N, 17.30°ETűzkövesárok Limestone — 47.34°N, 18.09°EÁgua de Madeiros — 39.74°N, 9.04°WRio Palomar — 41.29°N, 0.79°WAllgäu — 47.88°N, 14.41°EAllgäu — 47.18°N, 9.98°EAllgäu — 47.10°N, 9.78°EAllgäu — 47.25°N, 10.12°ESomssichhegy — 45.87°N, 18.45°EBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WInklin — 59.33°N, 133.72°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAdnet — 47.14°N, 9.84°ELautaro — 28.13°S, 69.96°WLautaro — 28.20°S, 69.94°WAin Ouarka — 32.71°N, 0.16°WFannin — 53.38°N, 132.27°WPiedra Pintada — 40.05°S, 70.35°WIsztimér — 47.18°N, 17.83°EAntimonio — 30.63°N, 112.57°WHasle — 55.10°N, 14.73°EPabellón — 27.92°S, 70.00°WMontandón — 25.89°S, 69.18°WRodiles — 43.53°N, 5.37°W

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The named rock units Oxynoticeratidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 273 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxynoticeratidae and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Oxynoticeratidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

515 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Oxynoticeratidae, 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

42 references

Each of the 380 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. 30 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 Oxynoticeratidae

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

No 3D scan of Oxynoticeratidae 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.

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 itPsiloceratoidea through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1875