Opsypharus

No picture of Opsypharus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Opsypharus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BumastinaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 10 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 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 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya426.7 Mya450 Mya422.2 Mya

10 occurrences of Opsypharus 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

10 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

4 formations

Mulloch Hill — 55.28°N, 4.74°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.13°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°ENewlands Farm — 55.28°N, 4.74°WKonovka Suite — 48.53°N, 26.67°E

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The named rock units Opsypharus 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.

Opsypharus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Opsypharus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Opsypharus, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 Opsypharus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Opsypharus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howells 1982