Ophiacodon major

No picture of Ophiacodon major was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ophiacodon major itself, so it was not used. 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 Ophiacodon major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiacodonPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 286 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–285 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290.1 Mya286 Mya294 Mya273.9 Mya

7 occurrences of Ophiacodon major on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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

5 formations

Waggoner Ranch — 33.76°N, 99.14°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.67°N, 99.14°WLueders — 33.75°N, 99.12°WLueders — 33.75°N, 99.15°WBelle Plains — 33.69°N, 99.02°WPutnam — 33.60°N, 98.63°WGarber — 34.30°N, 98.60°W

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

Ophiacodon major and its relatives

Permian

Where Ophiacodon major and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ophiacodon major, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 7 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 Ophiacodon major was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ophiacodon major itself, so it was not used.

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 Ophiacodon major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophiacodon major 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 itOphiacodon through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer and Price 1940