Opetionella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SollasellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEocene95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89.8 Mya41.03 Mya95 Mya37 Mya

3 occurrences of Opetionella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 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

3 formations

Vic Marls — 42.00°N, 2.23°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.32°E

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

Opetionella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Opetionella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Opetionella, 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

2 references

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. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Opetionella 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 itSollasellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878