Opaeophora lepida
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OpaeophoraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 950 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 340 ka.
3 occurrences of Opaeophora lepida on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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 the same rock
53 taxa- Arachnopusia unicornis3 sites
- Cellaria immersa3 sites
- Fenestrulina malusi3 sites
- Odontionella cyclops3 sites
- Amphiblestrum trifolium2 sites
- Calloporina diadema2 sites
- Chaperia acanthina2 sites
- Chaperia colensoi2 sites
- Chaperia multifida2 sites
- Chaperia rubida2 sites
- Chiastosella watersi2 sites
- Crassimarginatella sileni2 sites
- Electra ongleyi2 sites
- Escharoides angela2 sites
- Exochella conjuncta2 sites
- Exochella jellyae2 sites
- Figularia spinea2 sites
- Hippomenella bituberosa2 sites
- Hippomenella vellicata2 sites
- Hippoporina2 sites
- Hippothoa hyalina2 sites
- Macropora grandis2 sites
- Micropora coriacea2 sites
- Microporella ciliata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Opaeophora lepida, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Opaeophora lepida 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 Opaeophora lepida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Opaeophora lepida 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 itOpaeophora through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hincks 1881)