Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia

No picture of Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OxytomaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Oxytoma
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Oxytoma
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Oxytoma
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous149–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.7 Mya136.6 Mya

9 occurrences of Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

1 formation

Spilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°E

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The named rock units Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia, 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

2 references

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia 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 itOxytoma through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Orbigny 1850)