Jovellania

Searched as Rhytidoceras. The Paleobiology Database treats Jovellania as the accepted name.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
JovellaniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Oncocerida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Oncocerida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 351 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 22 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 22 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 22 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 22 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrences477–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–413 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–106 Mya — about 6 occurrences106–93 Mya — about 6 occurrences458.2 Mya106.3 Mya477 Mya93 Mya

22 occurrences of Jovellania 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

22 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

4 formations

Yanwashan — 28.00°N, 118.00°ERio Mayer — 49.38°S, 71.72°WNapo — 1.03°S, 77.65°WShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°E

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The named rock units Jovellania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Jovellania and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Jovellania and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Jovellania, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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. 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

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

No 3D scan of Jovellania 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 itJovellaniidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miagkova 1967