Ophidion

Searched as Ophidium. The Paleobiology Database treats Ophidion as the accepted name.

No picture of Ophidion 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 Ophidion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphidiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 6 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 31 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Ophidion on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

31 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

7 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WLindos Bay — 36.26°N, 28.17°ELindos Bay — 36.36°N, 28.21°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WMount Hillaby — 13.21°N, 59.59°W

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The named rock units Ophidion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophidion and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ophidion and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,549 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Ophidion, 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

15 references

Each of the 31 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Ophidion 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 Ophidion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophidion 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 itOphidiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)