Opis (Coelopis)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OpisPBDB
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 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrences249–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 4 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241.464 Mya149.2 Mya249 Mya141 Mya

12 occurrences of Opis (Coelopis) 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

12 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

7 formations

Neuburg — 48.73°N, 11.18°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°EVillány — 45.87°N, 18.45°EOolithe miliaire — 49.84°N, 4.33°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ELower Freestone — 51.80°N, 1.88°WArousiah — 30.70°N, 33.37°E

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The named rock units Opis (Coelopis) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Opis (Coelopis) and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Opis (Coelopis) and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Opis (Coelopis), 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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 Opis (Coelopis) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Opis (Coelopis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itOpis through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munier-Chalmas 1887)