Opeas minutum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OpeasPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Subulinidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Opeas minutum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Randeck Maar Formation1
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Opeas minutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Opeas minutum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Opeas minutum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Lymnaea dilatata3 sites
- Palaeotachea silvana3 sites
- Pseudochloritis incrassata3 sites
- Apula coarctata2 sites
- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata2 sites
- Gyraulus applanatus2 sites
- Leucochroopsis kleinii2 sites
- Planorbarius mantelli2 sites
- Anguidae1 site
- Archaeozonites1 site
- Archaeozonites costatus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bithynia1 site
- Bithynia glabra1 site
- Cainotherium huerzeleri1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Celtis1 site
- Chalicotherium grande1 site
- Channidae1 site
- Chara1 site
- Clausiliidae1 site
- Cricetodon meini1 site
- Democricetodon mutilus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Opeas minutum, 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
3 references- Fossil land and freshwater gastropods from the Middle Miocene of Bechingen and Daugendorf, southwestern Germany2
- Fossil gastropods from Miocene Lake Randeck Maar and its hinterland (SW Germany)1
- The fossil continental mollusks in the upper freshwater molasse (Middle Miocene) of the districts of Biberach, Ravensburg and Neu-Ulm, Germany1
Each of the 4 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 Opeas minutum 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 Opeas minutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Opeas minutum 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 itOpeas through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Klein 1853)