Oepikina
No picture of Oepikina 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 Oepikina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FurcitellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 9.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
230 occurrences of Oepikina on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
230 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
80 formations
- Benbolt Formation27
- Mangazea Formation · Chertovskian Group14
- Lebanon Limestone Formation10
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group9
- Benbolt-Wardell Formation8
- Stony Mountain Formation8
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The named rock units Oepikina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oepikina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Oepikina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
1,191 taxa- Strophomena69 sites
- Sowerbyella55 sites
- Hesperorthis52 sites
- Doleroides40 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa40 sites
- Rostricellula37 sites
- Rafinesquina33 sites
- Mimella29 sites
- Isotelus26 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria25 sites
- Rhipidomena tennesseensis25 sites
- Rhynchotrema25 sites
- Ceraurus23 sites
- Tetradium23 sites
- Glyptorthis22 sites
- Paurorthis22 sites
- Dinorthis transversa21 sites
- Girvanella21 sites
- Rhinidictya21 sites
- Dinorthis interstriata20 sites
- Dinorthis occidentalis20 sites
- Mimella globosa20 sites
- Multicostella platys20 sites
- Petrocrania20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 218 sites for Oepikina, 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
62 references- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia24
- Ordovician of the Tungus Basin (Siberian Platform). Field excursion guidebook17
- Gradient analysis of Middle Ordovician brachiopod biofacies: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic, and Macroevolutionary Implications17
- Late Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Red River and Stony Mountain Formations, Southern Manitoba16
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area12
- Biofacies Replacement in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, USA8
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities8
- Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains8
- The Palaeozoic Outlier of Lake Timiskaming, Ontario and Quebec8
- Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective6
- Chazyan and related brachiopods6
- Late Ordovician brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba and Ontario5
Each of the 230 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. 50 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
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No picture of Oepikina 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 Oepikina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oepikina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFurcitellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salmon 1942