Oepikites fragilis

No picture of Oepikites fragilis 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 Oepikites fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OepikitesPBDB
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 most 52 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 14 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 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 0.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 4 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–486 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences540 Mya486 Mya

14 occurrences of Oepikites fragilis 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

14 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

2 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°ELadoga — 60.14°N, 32.56°E

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The named rock units Oepikites fragilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Oepikites fragilis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Oepikites fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Oepikites fragilis, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Oepikites fragilis 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 Oepikites fragilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oepikites fragilis 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.

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

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

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