Ophiletidae

Ophiletidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiletoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 315 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 304 of 315 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 315 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 315 occurrencesDevonian499–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences492–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–484 Mya — about 28 occurrences484–480 Mya — about 34 occurrences480–476 Mya — about 29 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 40 occurrences473–469 Mya — about 45 occurrences469–465 Mya — about 25 occurrences465–461 Mya — about 19 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 28 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 21 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 20 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 12 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 6 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences397–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486.85 Mya393.47 Mya499 Mya386 Mya

315 occurrences of Ophiletidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

315 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

114 formations

Antelope Valley — 37.35°N, 115.77°WAntelope Valley — 38.96°N, 116.49°WAntelope Valley — 39.19°N, 116.38°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.20°N, 116.25°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WBoat Harbour — 48.50°N, 58.92°WBoat Harbour — 51.39°N, 56.45°WBoat Harbour — 48.54°N, 58.74°WBoat Harbour — 50.92°N, 57.18°WBoat Harbour — 50.88°N, 56.98°WBoat Harbour — 50.66°N, 57.22°WBoat Harbour — 50.77°N, 57.14°WBoat Harbour — 50.71°N, 57.33°WHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EHonghuayuan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 31.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 119.00°EShan Majiagou — 39.00°N, 115.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 111.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 113.00°EShan Majiagou — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShan Majiagou — 36.00°N, 113.00°EShan Majiagou — 40.00°N, 112.00°EShan Majiagou — 39.67°N, 118.26°ELianjiashan — 40.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 115.00°ELianjiashan — 41.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 40.00°N, 119.00°ELianjiashan — 40.00°N, 114.00°EDawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 29.00°N, 110.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 31.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ELower Setul — 6.45°N, 100.20°ELower Setul — 6.62°N, 100.22°ELower Setul — 6.42°N, 99.95°ELower Setul — 6.37°N, 99.97°ELower Setul — 6.28°N, 99.97°ELower Setul — 6.44°N, 99.81°ETanyard — 30.27°N, 97.74°WTanyard — 31.07°N, 98.70°WTanyard — 31.25°N, 98.72°WTanyard — 30.92°N, 99.50°WTanyard — 31.00°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 31.08°N, 98.57°WHoneycut — 31.10°N, 98.48°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 39.00°N, 118.00°EXia Majiagou — 40.00°N, 114.00°EDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WTable Point — 50.37°N, 57.54°WTable Point — 50.70°N, 57.41°WChepultepec — 36.73°N, 81.77°WChepultepec — 38.80°N, 78.55°WChepultepec — 35.07°N, 85.58°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 61.33°N, 8.80°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.17°EElnes — 59.92°N, 10.75°EYeli — 41.00°N, 118.00°EYeli — 40.00°N, 119.00°EYeli — 38.00°N, 113.00°ECatoche — 48.47°N, 59.23°WCatoche — 50.73°N, 57.25°WCatoche — 48.54°N, 58.74°WCatoche — 50.37°N, 57.53°WWatts Bight — 48.53°N, 58.75°WWatts Bight — 48.55°N, 58.73°WNewala — 34.54°N, 85.35°WGorman — 30.27°N, 97.74°WGorman — 30.62°N, 99.23°WGorman — 30.28°N, 99.42°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.42°WFort Ann — 43.91°N, 73.30°WBaota — 29.00°N, 110.00°EBaota — 31.00°N, 111.00°EBaota — 32.00°N, 118.00°ECrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.40°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WNittany Dolomite — 40.73°N, 77.78°WNittany Dolomite — 40.47°N, 78.20°WNittany Dolomite — 40.80°N, 77.85°WTribes Hill — 43.55°N, 73.38°WTribes Hill — 42.94°N, 74.28°WTribes Hill — 43.02°N, 74.74°W

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The named rock units Ophiletidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 90 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophiletidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ophiletidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,655 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 260 sites for Ophiletidae, 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

116 references

Each of the 315 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. 104 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Ophiletidae 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

Licence
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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. Knight 1956