Opisthophyllum vesiculare

No picture of Opisthophyllum vesiculare was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Opisthophyllum vesiculare, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OpisthophyllumPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 145.06 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous145–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145.6 Mya132.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Opisthophyllum vesiculare 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

4 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

2 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EXarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°E

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The named rock units Opisthophyllum vesiculare has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Opisthophyllum vesiculare and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Opisthophyllum vesiculare and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Opisthophyllum vesiculare, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Opisthophyllum vesiculare was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Opisthophyllum vesiculare, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Opisthophyllum vesiculare 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 itOpisthophyllum through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilvie 1897