Ophisauromimus
No picture of Ophisauromimus 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 Ophisauromimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnguidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Anguidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Ophisauromimus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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.
Ophisauromimus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Ophisauromimus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Lacertidae5 sites
- Mediolacerta roceki5 sites
- Amphisbaenidae4 sites
- Anguini4 sites
- Cordylidae4 sites
- Pseudeumeces cadurcensis4 sites
- Amphisbaenia3 sites
- Blanidae3 sites
- Dracaenosaurus croizeti3 sites
- Ergilemys3 sites
- Glirudinus glirulus3 sites
- Hyaenodon leptorhynchus3 sites
- Microdyromys praemurinus3 sites
- Palaeosciurus goti3 sites
- Peridyromys murinus3 sites
- Schizogliravus bruijni3 sites
- Stenoplesictis cayluxi3 sites
- Amphicynodon typicus2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Bavarioboa crocheti2 sites
- Butseloglis tenuis2 sites
- Coluber cadurci2 sites
- Cyonarctos dessei2 sites
- Dinailurictis bonali2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ophisauromimus, 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
2 references- The new rare record of the late Oligocene lizards and amphisbaenians from Germany and its impact on our knowledge of the European terminal Palaeogene4
- Evolution des lézards du Paléogène en Europe4
Each of the 8 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 Ophisauromimus 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 Ophisauromimus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophisauromimus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnguidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cernansky et al. 2016