Oppelia kachhensis

Oppelia kachhensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OppeliaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 152.21 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Oppelia kachhensis 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

1 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

1 formation

Katrol — 23.50°N, 70.50°E

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

Oppelia kachhensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Oppelia kachhensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Oppelia kachhensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 content1

Picture of Oppelia kachhensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Oppelia kachhensis 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 itOppelia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1875