Ophthalmidium carinatum

Ophthalmidium carinatum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphthalmidiumPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 159 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 2 of 8 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 8 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 8 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence198–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence196–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence193–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–158 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences205.7 Mya161.5 Mya229 Mya158 Mya

8 occurrences of Ophthalmidium carinatum on record, most of them in the Early 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

8 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

Schnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°ESchöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°E

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The named rock units Ophthalmidium carinatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ophthalmidium carinatum and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ophthalmidium carinatum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ophthalmidium carinatum, 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

4 references

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 content1

Picture of Ophthalmidium carinatum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ophthalmidium carinatum 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 itOphthalmidium through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pazdrowa 1958