Opalia (Dentiscala)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OpaliaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 12 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Opalia (Dentiscala) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

4 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.86°N, 123.11°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.00°N, 123.26°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°E

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The named rock units Opalia (Dentiscala) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Opalia (Dentiscala) and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Opalia (Dentiscala) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Opalia (Dentiscala), 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

9 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 content0

No picture of Opalia (Dentiscala) 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 Opalia (Dentiscala), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Opalia (Dentiscala) 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 itOpalia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Boury 1886)