Ophiacantha francojurassica
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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 most 3.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 154.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ophiacantha francojurassica on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
1 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ophiacantha francojurassica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophiacantha francojurassica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ophiacantha francojurassica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acrosalenia1 site
- Apiocrinites roissyanus1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Hemitiaris1 site
- Isocrinus1 site
- Juralina bauhini1 site
- Ophiacantha biformis1 site
- Ophioderma spectabilis1 site
- Ophiomusium1 site
- Ophiopetra oertlii1 site
- Paracidaris1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Pedina1 site
- Polydiadema1 site
- Septaliphoria arduennensis1 site
- Septaliphoria pinguis1 site
- Sinosura1 site
- Solanocrinites costatus1 site
- Xestosina subsella1 site
- Zeilleria astartina1 site
- Zeilleria humeralis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ophiacantha francojurassica, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ophiacantha francojurassica 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 Ophiacantha francojurassica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiacantha francojurassica 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 itOphiacantha through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hess 1975