Ophiceras
Searched as Ophiceras greenlandicum subplatyspira. The Paleobiology Database treats Ophiceras as the accepted name.
Ophiceras is an extinct genus of smooth, evolute ceratitid ammonites from the Griesbachian, with a rounded venter. Fossils of the genus have been found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Greenland, and India.
Jonathan Chen · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiceratidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 802 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 251.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ophiceras on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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- Early Triassic100%
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 Ophiceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophiceras and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Ophiceras and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
365 taxa- Claraia stachei54 sites
- Claraia43 sites
- Wordieoceras wordiei29 sites
- Microconchus valvatus25 sites
- Otoceras woodwardi25 sites
- Naticopsis24 sites
- Discophiceras wordiei21 sites
- Hypophiceras gracile19 sites
- Claraia griesbachi17 sites
- Lytophiceras15 sites
- Hindeodus parvus13 sites
- Claraia wangi12 sites
- Promyalina11 sites
- Promyalina schamarae11 sites
- Claraia concentrica9 sites
- Crinoidea9 sites
- Glyptophiceras9 sites
- Warthia borealis9 sites
- Eumorphotis8 sites
- Metophiceras subdemissum8 sites
- Tompophiceras pascoei8 sites
- Claraia aurita7 sites
- Eumorphotis venetiana7 sites
- Gastropoda7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 268 sites for Ophiceras, and this reads 240 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
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
Media content1
Picture of Ophiceras
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jonathan Chen
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ophiceras 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Ophiceras”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOphiceratidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Griesbach 1880