Opalia varicostata

Opalia varicostata

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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 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6 Mya2.58 Mya5.83 Mya1.3 Mya

12 occurrences of Opalia varicostata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

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

6 formations

Pico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WSan Diego — 34.04°N, 118.53°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WEtchegoin — 36.02°N, 120.26°WSan Diego — 32.47°N, 117.12°W

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

Opalia varicostata and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Opalia varicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Opalia varicostata, 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

6 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 Opalia varicostata

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iDigBio
Credit
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Opalia varicostata 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 itOpalia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stearns 1875)