Aplocoma

Aplocoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiolepididaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, detritivorePBDB, for Ophiolepididae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiolepididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophiolepididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous254–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence250–246 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences246–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–237 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 3 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 3 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251.1 Mya132.6 Mya254 Mya123 Mya

12 occurrences of Aplocoma on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

12 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

Braunjura beta — 48.82°N, 10.08°EPierre jaune — 47.02°N, 6.98°EWestbury — 52.63°N, 1.13°WMianwali — 32.55°N, 71.80°EWaruishi — 35.33°N, 134.98°E

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The named rock units Aplocoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aplocoma and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Aplocoma and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Aplocoma, 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

11 references

Each of the 12 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 Aplocoma

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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 itOphiolepididae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1852