Opoa

A picture published with the record for Opoa. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeroperixinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 11 occurrencesSilurian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438.6 Mya426.7 Mya443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

11 occurrences of Opoa on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

5 formations

Attawapiskat — 52.94°N, 83.07°WAttawapiskat — 52.91°N, 82.68°WAttawapiskat — 53.46°N, 82.93°WAttawapiskat — 53.45°N, 82.91°WSamuelsen Høj — 80.00°N, 22.00°WSamuelsen Høj — 81.85°N, 61.29°WCape Schuchert — 81.00°N, 65.00°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WFukata — 33.53°N, 133.22°E

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The named rock units Opoa 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.

Opoa and its relatives

Silurian

Where Opoa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Opoa, 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

5 references

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. 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 Opoa

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows 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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What may have been alongside itMeroperixinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lane 1972