Sonninia altecostata
No picture of Sonninia altecostata 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 Sonninia altecostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SonniniaPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Sonninia altecostata 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sonninia altecostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sonninia altecostata and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Sonninia altecostata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Hammatoceras2 sites
- Astarte1 site
- Camptonectes lens1 site
- Cercomya1 site
- Cercomya (Capillimya) peruviana1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Ctenostreon1 site
- Entolium1 site
- Entolium demissum1 site
- Eopecten1 site
- Goniomya1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Lytoceras1 site
- Modiolus1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Otoites1 site
- Otoitidae1 site
- Oxytoma1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) fidicula1 site
- Serpula1 site
- Sonninia espinazitensis1 site
- Stephanoceratidae1 site
- Trigonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sonninia altecostata, 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- Hoja Salar de Maricunga, Región de Atacama. Servicio. Nacional de Geología y Minería, Mapas Geológicos No.7, 1 mapa escala 1:100.000. Santiago2
- Geología del Área Monte Patria-El Maqui, Región de Coquimbo1
Each of the 3 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 Sonninia altecostata 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 Sonninia altecostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sonninia altecostata 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 itSonninia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tornquist 1898