Opis corallina

No picture of Opis corallina 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 Opis corallina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162 Mya154.3 Mya

11 occurrences of Opis corallina on record, most of them in the Late 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

11 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

Coral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WCoralline Oolite — 54.23°N, 0.43°WHambleton Oolite — 54.25°N, 1.07°WBerkshire Oolite — 51.78°N, 1.18°WUpper Calcareous Grit — 53.98°N, 1.53°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°E

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

Opis corallina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Opis corallina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Opis corallina, 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

1 reference

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Opis corallina 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 Opis corallina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Opis corallina 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 itOpis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Damon 1860