Opisthocoelus concentricus
No picture of Opisthocoelus concentricus 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 Opisthocoelus concentricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OpisthocoelusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 368.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Opisthocoelus concentricus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Opisthocoelus concentricus 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.
Opisthocoelus concentricus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Opisthocoelus concentricus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Bactrites1 site
- Beloceras sagittarium1 site
- Buchiola retrostriata1 site
- Glyptohallicardia palmata1 site
- Leiorhynchus subreniformis1 site
- Manticoceras intumescens1 site
- Opisthocoelus ausavensis1 site
- Pugnaria rotundata1 site
- Rhyssochonetes nanus1 site
- Styliolina1 site
- Tentaculites1 site
- Tornoceras1 site
- Tornoceras simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Opisthocoelus concentricus, 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
2 references- Das Oberdevon des Bergischen Landes1
- Die Lamellibranchiaten des rheinischen Devon mit Ausschluss der Aviculiden1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Opisthocoelus concentricus 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 Opisthocoelus concentricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Opisthocoelus concentricus 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 itOpisthocoelus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beushausen 1895