Ophiceras greenlandicum
No picture of Ophiceras greenlandicum 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 greenlandicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Ophiceras greenlandicum 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
9 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
- Wordie Creek Formation6
- Blind Fiord Formation2
- Ivishak Formation · Sadlerochit Group1
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The named rock units Ophiceras greenlandicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophiceras greenlandicum and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Ophiceras greenlandicum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Claraia stachei4 sites
- Discophiceras wordiei4 sites
- Ophiceras commune4 sites
- Wordieoceras wordiei3 sites
- Microconchus valvatus2 sites
- Naticopsis2 sites
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) kochi2 sites
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) subkyokticum2 sites
- Ophiceras subsakuntala2 sites
- Ophiceras transitorium2 sites
- Otoceras woodwardi2 sites
- Bukkenites nanus1 site
- Bukkenites strigatus1 site
- Claraia1 site
- Glyptophiceras minor1 site
- Hypophiceras gracile1 site
- Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) poulseni1 site
- Ophiceras (Discophiceras) compressum involuta1 site
- Ophiceras (Lytophiceras) subsakuntala1 site
- Promyalina groenlandica1 site
- Proptychites1 site
- Proptychites rosenkrantzi1 site
- Tompophiceras pascoei1 site
- Unionites canalensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ophiceras greenlandicum, 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- Additions to the Eo-Triassic invertebrate fauna of east Greenland3
- Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas2
- The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland2
- Ammonoid stratigraphy and sedimentary evolution across the Permian–Triassic boundary in East Greenland1
- Post Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Northeastern Alaska1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Ophiceras greenlandicum 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 greenlandicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiceras greenlandicum 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. Spath 1930