Ophidium magnus
No picture of Ophidium magnus 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 Ophidium magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphidiumPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ophidium magnus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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.
Ophidium magnus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ophidium magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Gobius vicinalis2 sites
- Macrurus gracilis2 sites
- Macrurus toulai2 sites
- Macrurus trolli2 sites
- Apogonidarum1 site
- Arius germanicus1 site
- Arnoglossus kokeni1 site
- Bathygadus novus1 site
- Berycidarum tuberculatus1 site
- Brachydeuterus speronatus1 site
- Brosmophycis elegans1 site
- Carangidarum americanus1 site
- Cepola1 site
- Cepola oriens1 site
- Citharus schuberti1 site
- Coelorhynchus cristatus1 site
- Corvina gibberulus1 site
- Corvina speciosa1 site
- Coryphaenoides maximus1 site
- Dentex nobilis1 site
- Diaphus sulcatus1 site
- Epigonus italicus1 site
- Fierasfer posterus1 site
- Gobius obliquus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ophidium magnus, 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
2 references- Description of fish otoliths from the Tertiary formationsof Atcheen, Northern Sumatra1
- Otoliti fossili terziari dell'Emilia1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ophidium magnus 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 Ophidium magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophidium magnus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOphidium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassoli 1906