Ophiacodon retroversus
No picture of Ophiacodon retroversus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ophiacodon retroversus itself, so it was not used. 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 Ophiacodon retroversus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiacodonPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 7.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 286 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
18 occurrences of Ophiacodon retroversus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
18 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group5
- Belle Plains Formation · Wichita Group4
- Petrolia Formation · Wichita Group3
- Archer City Formation · Wichita Group2
- Putnam Formation · Cisco Group1
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Ophiacodon retroversus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ophiacodon retroversus and its relatives
PermianWhere Ophiacodon retroversus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Diadectes8 sites
- Eryops8 sites
- Archeria6 sites
- Dimetrodon5 sites
- Trimerorhachis insignis5 sites
- Cricotus4 sites
- Ophiacodon uniformis4 sites
- Trimerorhachis4 sites
- Dimetrodon limbatus3 sites
- Eryops megacephalus3 sites
- Zatrachys3 sites
- Bolosaurus striatus2 sites
- Cardiocephalus sternbergi2 sites
- Diadectes sideropelicus2 sites
- Dimetrodon natalis2 sites
- Edaphosaurus2 sites
- Edaphosaurus boanerges2 sites
- Orthacanthus texensis2 sites
- Parioxys ferricolus2 sites
- Secodontosaurus obtusidens2 sites
- Acheloma1 site
- Annularia1 site
- Archeria crassidisca1 site
- Aspidosaurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ophiacodon retroversus, 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
6 references- Review of the Pelycosauria12
- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds2
- New Specimens of Xenacanth and Hybodont Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Xenacanthida and Hybodontoidea) from the Lower Permian of Southwestern Oklahoma1
- Early Permian Vertebrates1
- The Localities and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas1
- Fifth contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of the Permian formation of Texas and the Indian Territory1
Each of the 18 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 Ophiacodon retroversus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ophiacodon retroversus itself, so it was not used.
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 Ophiacodon retroversus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiacodon retroversus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOphiacodon through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1878)