Odontopleura

Odontopleura is a genus of spinose odontopleurid trilobite in the family Odontopleuridae, and is the type genus of that family and of Odontopleurida. The various species are found in Upper Ordovician to Middle Devonian marine strata throughout the world. The best studied fossils are of the type species, O. ovata, from the Wenlock-aged Liteň Formation in Loděnice, in Bohemia, Czech Republic, and, southeastern Gotland, of Sweden.

Odontopleura

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontopleurinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 35 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 26 of 35 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 35 occurrencesDevonian452–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–431 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.2 Mya419.62 Mya451.8 Mya412.3 Mya

35 occurrences of Odontopleura on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

35 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

13 formations

Whittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 50.20°N, 12.48°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.18°EDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WDelorme — 62.78°N, 125.25°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.42°N, 85.01°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WCabano — 47.71°N, 68.76°WZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°EMosalem — 42.25°N, 90.42°WErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EZhangjiatun — 43.68°N, 126.30°E

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The named rock units Odontopleura 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.

Odontopleura and its relatives

Silurian

Where Odontopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

572 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Odontopleura, 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

13 references

Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is 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 Odontopleura

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Odontopleura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOdontopleurinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emmrich 1839