Opis

Opis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OpinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 175 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 174 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 174 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 174 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 174 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 23 of 174 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 43 of 174 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 174 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 63 of 174 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 174 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 174 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–231 Mya — about 5 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 3 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 6 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–165 Mya — about 20 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 12 occurrences158–152 Mya — about 24 occurrences152–145 Mya — about 8 occurrences145–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–132 Mya — about 3 occurrences132–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–118 Mya — about 5 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 5 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 4 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 5 occurrences99–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 6 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 11 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 14 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 24 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya66 Mya251 Mya52 Mya

174 occurrences of Opis 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

174 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

70 formations

Ladd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WLadd — 33.69°N, 117.62°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WMoreno — 36.99°N, 120.94°WMoreno — 37.22°N, 121.12°WMoreno — 36.80°N, 120.93°WMoreno — 37.04°N, 120.98°WCalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.97°N, 6.69°EOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WNeuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°EPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°EEl Piojo — 34.12°N, 118.92°WEl Piojo — 35.88°N, 120.85°WEl Piojo — 35.74°N, 121.05°WPigeon Point — 37.18°N, 122.39°WRosario — 32.10°N, 116.08°WRosario — 31.83°N, 116.55°WRosario — 31.88°N, 116.55°WPoint Loma — 32.70°N, 117.23°WPoint Loma — 33.14°N, 117.28°WCassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°ECoralline Oolite — 54.23°N, 0.43°WCoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WBerkshire Oolite — 51.78°N, 1.18°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EDakota — 35.99°N, 111.94°WDakota — 35.45°N, 110.50°WKaskapau — 55.95°N, 122.12°WCalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°E

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The named rock units Opis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Opis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Opis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Opis, 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

63 references

Each of the 174 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. 51 further references are not listed. 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 Opis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1824)