Sonninia

Sonninia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SonniniinaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 180.4 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 139 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 138 of 139 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 139 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 1 occurrence174–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 31 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 33 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 33 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 24 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180.9 Mya161 Mya

139 occurrences of Sonninia on record, most of them in the Middle 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

139 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

18 formations

Agoudim — 32.24°N, 4.26°WKialagvik — 57.32°N, 156.39°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.25°EDhruma — 23.20°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 24.63°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.92°N, 46.03°ELautaro — 28.14°S, 69.96°WLautaro — 28.20°S, 69.94°WLautaro — 28.17°S, 70.00°WTres Cruces — 30.88°S, 70.50°WNewmarracarra Limestone — 28.88°S, 115.02°ENewmarracarra Limestone — 28.79°S, 114.80°ESnowshoe — 44.42°N, 118.90°WSnowshoe — 44.47°N, 119.53°WBirdlip Limestone — 50.93°N, 2.59°WLajas — 39.17°S, 69.95°WLajas — 39.17°S, 70.07°WLower Dhruma — 23.97°N, 46.25°ELos Molles — 39.25°S, 70.30°WTölgyhát — 47.28°N, 18.10°EMontandón — 26.54°S, 69.25°WMontandón — 26.55°S, 69.19°WBraunjura gamma — 48.83°N, 10.10°EZhamunaqu — 32.42°N, 91.75°EMormon — 40.06°N, 120.81°WAsientos — 25.97°S, 69.18°WAston Limestone — 50.93°N, 2.58°W

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The named rock units Sonninia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sonninia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Sonninia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Sonninia, 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

29 references

Each of the 139 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. 17 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 content2

Picture of Sonninia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itSonniniinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douville 1879