Iniopera richardsoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
InioperaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 31 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferous315–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–311 Mya — about 1 occurrence311–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–309 Mya — about 1 occurrence309–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–307 Mya — about 1 occurrence307–307 Mya — about 1 occurrence307–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315.7 Mya303.2 Mya

31 occurrences of Iniopera richardsoni on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

31 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

Linton — 39.72°N, 87.32°WLinton — 40.46°N, 86.96°WLinton — 39.79°N, 87.38°WLinton — 41.02°N, 87.29°WLinton — 39.46°N, 87.19°WCarbondale — 38.28°N, 87.17°WCarbondale — 41.16°N, 88.22°WStaunton — 39.85°N, 87.30°WWesterville — 41.06°N, 96.06°WWesterville — 41.14°N, 95.98°WDennis — 41.47°N, 96.01°W

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

Iniopera richardsoni and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Iniopera richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Iniopera richardsoni, 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 31 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Iniopera richardsoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Iniopera richardsoni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itIniopera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl and Case 1973