Reedops

Reedops is an extinct genus of phacopid trilobite.

Reedops

Ronald Flipphi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PhacopinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 97 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 96 of 97 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 1 occurrence414–412 Mya — about 26 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 47 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–398 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422.7 Mya393.47 Mya427.6 Mya381.4 Mya

97 occurrences of Reedops on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

97 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

27 formations

Ihandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WIhandar — 30.73°N, 4.64°WBou Regreg Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WSlivenec Limestone — 49.99°N, 14.33°EVinarice Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°ERechoua Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WTiflet Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WZlichov Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°EMegrane Shale — 31.90°N, 3.13°WHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.38°N, 4.07°WSaheb el Djir — 31.92°N, 1.85°WDvorce-Prokop — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKess-Kess — 30.95°N, 4.05°WPraha — 49.42°N, 15.86°EPraha — 49.96°N, 14.19°ELochkov — 50.08°N, 14.47°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°ETafilalt Limestone — 31.75°N, 4.50°WAssa — 29.90°N, 6.82°WKarakavak — 39.62°N, 72.80°ELochkow — 49.98°N, 14.33°EHumevale — 37.50°S, 145.50°EGhtira Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WAin ed Dick Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WSidi Ahroun Limestone — 33.43°N, 6.02°WBen Slimane Kalkknollen — 33.50°N, 7.17°WKwataboahegan — 51.50°N, 81.00°W

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The named rock units Reedops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reedops and its relatives

Devonian

Where Reedops and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

722 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Reedops, 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

20 references

Each of the 97 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Reedops

Credit
Ronald Flipphi
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPhacopinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richter and Richter 1925)