Orbitoplax

Orbitoplax

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
EuryplacidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48.07 Mya27.3 Mya56.8 Mya15.2 Mya

22 occurrences of Orbitoplax on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

22 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

9 formations

Lookingglass — 42.56°N, 124.02°WLookingglass — 43.03°N, 123.64°WLlajas — 34.27°N, 118.71°WMission Valley — 32.74°N, 117.02°WPoul Creek — 60.00°N, 144.50°WTejon — 36.36°N, 120.44°WMartinez — 37.96°N, 122.13°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WArdath — 32.90°N, 117.23°WCozy Dell — 34.55°N, 119.23°W

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The named rock units Orbitoplax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbitoplax and its relatives

Eocene

Where Orbitoplax and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Orbitoplax, 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

9 references

Each of the 22 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 Orbitoplax

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Orbitoplax 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 itEuryplacidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tucker and Feldmann 1990