Ophiurella viguieri
No picture of Ophiurella viguieri 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 Ophiurella viguieri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiurellaPBDB
- 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 most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ophiurella viguieri on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Ophiurella viguieri and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Ophiurella viguieri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Acrosalenia spinosa1 site
- Asterias ranvillensis1 site
- Berenicea diluviana1 site
- Cererithyris intermedia1 site
- Diastopora1 site
- Dictyothyris1 site
- Entalophora1 site
- Eudesia1 site
- Eudesia (Eudesia) cardium1 site
- Nucleolites1 site
- Ophiopeza ferrugineum1 site
- Sinosura portei1 site
- Spiropora1 site
- Zeilleria1 site
- Zeilleria digona1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ophiurella viguieri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ophiurella viguieri 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 Ophiurella viguieri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiurella viguieri 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 itOphiurella through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Porte 1927