Pseudoosterella ubalaensis

Pseudoosterella ubalaensis is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod species belonging to the genus Pseudoosterella in the family of Oosterellidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Early Cretaceous; Valanginian epoch. The species was first described by Haas in 1960.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudoosterellaPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.6 Mya132.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Pseudoosterella ubalaensis 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

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

Middle part — 4.22°N, 73.61°W

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The named rock units Pseudoosterella ubalaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoosterella ubalaensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pseudoosterella ubalaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudoosterella ubalaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 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.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pseudoosterella ubalaensis 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 Pseudoosterella ubalaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudoosterella ubalaensis 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 itPseudoosterella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haas 1960