Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras)PBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Mzinene Formation2
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation1
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The named rock units Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Douvilleiceras inaequinodum2 sites
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum2 sites
- Anchura1 site
- Cleoniceras1 site
- Cleoniceras (Neosaynella) inornatum1 site
- Cleoniceras cleon1 site
- Cucullaea glabra1 site
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum1 site
- Entolium orbiculare1 site
- Eucyclus1 site
- Eurotrigonia mantelli1 site
- Eutrephoceras clementinum1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Gryphaeostrea canaliculata1 site
- Gyrodes1 site
- Hamites1 site
- Hamites praegibbosus1 site
- Hoplites1 site
- Hypacanthoplites milletianus1 site
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni1 site
- Leptomaria1 site
- Lyelliceras lyelli1 site
- Lyelliceras pseudolyelli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum, 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
3 references- Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite genus Oxytropidoceras Stieler, 19202
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
Each of the 4 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.
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No picture of Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) alticarinatum 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 itOxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1922)