Ophiopetra oertlii

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiopetraPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 180.4 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 13 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 13 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 8 of 13 occurrencesLate Jurassic183–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences180.4 Mya157.9 Mya183.5 Mya154.2 Mya

13 occurrences of Ophiopetra oertlii 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

13 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

4 formations

Effinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EHumeralis Schichten — 47.47°N, 7.37°EGünsberg-Schichten — 47.33°N, 7.60°E

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The named rock units Ophiopetra oertlii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophiopetra oertlii and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ophiopetra oertlii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ophiopetra oertlii, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 Ophiopetra oertlii 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 Ophiopetra oertlii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophiopetra oertlii 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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What may have been alongside itOphiopetra through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hess 1965