Ophiopsis

Ophiopsis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
OphiopsidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 140 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 17 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 17 occurrences246–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 6 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences241.464 Mya100.5 Mya246 Mya91 Mya

17 occurrences of Ophiopsis 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

17 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

5 formations

Solnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 49.00°N, 11.70°ESolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°EMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 41.99°N, 106.08°WGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°ETwin Mountains — 32.27°N, 97.91°W

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The named rock units Ophiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophiopsis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ophiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ophiopsis, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Ophiopsis

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ophiopsis 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.

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What may have been alongside itOphiopsidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834