Coelopis

Coelopis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OpinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 229 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 99 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 7 of 99 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 99 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 37 of 99 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 34 of 99 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 99 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 99 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 99 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 99 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 99 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 99 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 99 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 99 occurrences252–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–235 Mya — about 6 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 2 occurrences227–219 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences219–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 3 occurrences202–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–185 Mya — about 4 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 32 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–160 Mya — about 34 occurrences160–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 10 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–2.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences241.464 Mya11.63 Mya252 Mya2 Mya

99 occurrences of Coelopis on record, most of them in the Early 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

99 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

27 formations

Dhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WCassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°ENeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°EVillány — 45.87°N, 18.45°EKehalia — 30.68°N, 33.30°EKehalia — 30.72°N, 33.44°EChelva — 41.00°N, 1.00°WCalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WKorallenoolith — 52.13°N, 10.02°EChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EOolithe miliaire — 49.84°N, 4.33°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°EInmar — 30.61°N, 34.88°ELower Freestone — 51.80°N, 1.88°WKanike — 3.10°S, 129.47°E

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The named rock units Coelopis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coelopis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Coelopis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Coelopis, 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

31 references

Each of the 99 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. 19 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 content1

Picture of Coelopis

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

No 3D scan of Coelopis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Munier-Chalmas 1887