Ophiacantha danica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiacanthaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ophiacanthidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiacanthidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophiacanthidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

10 occurrences of Ophiacantha danica 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

10 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

5 formations

Gulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.80°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.06°N, 15.10°EBìlà Hora — 49.83°N, 15.25°E

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The named rock units Ophiacantha danica 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.

Ophiacantha danica and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ophiacantha danica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

235 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ophiacantha danica, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 Ophiacantha danica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ophiacantha danica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasmussen 1951