Ophiacodon uniformis
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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 298.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
12 occurrences of Ophiacodon uniformis 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
12 occurrences- Permian100%
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
9 formations
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group2
- Archer City Formation · Wichita Group2
- Petrolia Formation · Wichita Group2
- Wellington Formation · Sumner Group1
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Ophiacodon uniformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophiacodon uniformis and its relatives
PermianWhere Ophiacodon uniformis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Diadectes5 sites
- Eryops4 sites
- Ophiacodon retroversus4 sites
- Trimerorhachis4 sites
- Archeria3 sites
- Bolosaurus striatus3 sites
- Dimetrodon3 sites
- Archeria crassidisca2 sites
- Cricotus2 sites
- Dimetrodon booneorum2 sites
- Edaphosaurus2 sites
- Eryops megacephalus2 sites
- Sagenodus2 sites
- Trimerorhachis insignis2 sites
- Zatrachys2 sites
- Annularia1 site
- Aspidosaurus1 site
- Calamites1 site
- Calamites undulatus1 site
- Callipteridium1 site
- Callipteris1 site
- Cardiocephalus sternbergi1 site
- Clepsydrops1 site
- Cordaites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ophiacodon uniformis, 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
5 references- Review of the Pelycosauria8
- Catalog of type and figured fossil vertebrates, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History1
- Taphonomy of the Lower Permian Geraldine Bonebed in Archer County, Texas1
- New and little known genera and species of vertebrates from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma1
- Ophiacodon from Ohio1
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
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Ophiacodon uniformis · MCZ:VP:VPRA-5935
No picture of Ophiacodon uniformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ophiacodon uniformis 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 uniformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
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. (Cope 1878)