Oepikites

Oepikites

Öpik, Armin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
ObolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 483.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 482.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 35 of 41 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 6 of 41 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences530–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–526 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences526–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences517–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–505 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 1 occurrence503–501 Mya — about 1 occurrence501–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–495 Mya — about 6 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 7 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 5 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 5 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 4 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 3 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499.5 Mya483.8 Mya540 Mya482 Mya

41 occurrences of Oepikites on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

41 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

7 formations

Ülgase — 59.43°N, 24.73°EÜlgase — 59.46°N, 24.91°EÜlgase — 59.48°N, 25.02°EÜlgase — 59.48°N, 25.34°EÜlgase — 59.51°N, 25.50°EÜlgase — 59.45°N, 25.67°EÜlgase — 59.49°N, 25.09°EÜlgase — 59.43°N, 24.99°ESablinskaya — 59.93°N, 30.27°ESablinskaya — 59.88°N, 31.83°ESablinskaya — 59.69°N, 30.88°ETsitre — 59.45°N, 25.67°ETsitre — 59.41°N, 25.02°EKallavere — 59.49°N, 25.09°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EKaradzhorga — 41.94°N, 74.74°ELadoga — 60.14°N, 32.56°E

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The named rock units Oepikites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oepikites and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Oepikites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Oepikites, 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

7 references

Each of the 41 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

Media content1

Picture of Oepikites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Öpik, Armin
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itObolinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Khazanovitch and Popov 1984