Ophiletina

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 45 of 45 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458.2 Mya451 Mya469.9 Mya449 Mya

45 occurrences of Ophiletina 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

45 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

24 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WCliffield — 37.09°N, 81.34°WCliffield — 37.15°N, 81.49°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.41°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.92°N, 93.02°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKangaroo Creek — 41.38°N, 122.65°WKangaroo Creek — 41.39°N, 122.64°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDecorah Shale — 44.50°N, 92.90°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 41.85°N, 89.48°WMcGregor — 42.73°N, 90.48°WMcGregor — 40.78°N, 87.39°WMurfreesboro Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBromide — 34.41°N, 96.98°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WZhongbao — 38.00°N, 102.00°EMajiagou — 39.02°N, 125.81°EAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°WProsser — 43.70°N, 92.27°W

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The named rock units Ophiletina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ophiletina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ophiletina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Ophiletina, 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

14 references

Each of the 45 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. 2 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Ophiletina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897