Ophiosmilax alternatus

No picture of Ophiosmilax alternatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ophiosmilax alternatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiosmilaxPBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

15 occurrences of Ophiosmilax alternatus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

15 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

6 formations

Bìlà Hora — 49.83°N, 15.25°EBìlà Hora — 49.93°N, 15.50°EBìlà Hora — 49.83°N, 15.60°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.75°N, 5.67°EPeruc-Korycany — 50.06°N, 15.10°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EBireno — 35.36°N, 9.83°ETeplice — 50.45°N, 14.05°E

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The named rock units Ophiosmilax alternatus 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.

Ophiosmilax alternatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ophiosmilax alternatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ophiosmilax alternatus, 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

5 references

Each of the 15 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 Ophiosmilax alternatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ophiosmilax alternatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophiosmilax alternatus 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 itOphiosmilax through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kutscher and Jagt 2000