Ophiceras gibbosum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphicerasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 250.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 248.6 Mya.
8 occurrences of Ophiceras gibbosum on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
8 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Ophiceras gibbosum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ophiceras gibbosum and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Ophiceras gibbosum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Ophiceras medium5 sites
- Ophiceras tibeticum5 sites
- Anotoceras nala3 sites
- Metophiceras demissum3 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
- Flemingites muthensis2 sites
- Glyptophiceras2 sites
- Otoceras woodwardi2 sites
- Anakashmirites lidacensis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anotoceras costatum1 site
- Aspenites1 site
- Aspidites meridianus1 site
- Austrotindaria svalbardensis1 site
- Baidites tenue1 site
- Bakevellia exporrecta1 site
- Bukkenites1 site
- Claraia stachei1 site
- Clypeoceras1 site
- Cordillerites1 site
- Discophiceras wordiei1 site
- Enantiostreon1 site
- Episageceras1 site
- Episageceras dalailamae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Ophiceras gibbosum, 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
7 references- High-resolution Early Triassic ammonoid biostratigraphy of South Tibet, China and implications for global correlations2
- Cephalopoda1
- The Lower Triassic (Scythian) Ammonoid Otoceras1
- Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias1
- The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland1
- Die Ammoniten der Unteren Trias von Timor1
- Palaeontological notes on the Lower Trias of the Himalayas1
Each of the 8 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 Ophiceras gibbosum 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 Ophiceras gibbosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiceras gibbosum 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 itOphiceras through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Griesbach 1880)