Ophileta laevata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiletaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphalina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Ophileta laevata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ophileta laevata 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.
Ophileta laevata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ophileta laevata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Cyclospira4 sites
- Dekayella praenuntia4 sites
- Desmorthis nevadensis4 sites
- Dictyonella reticulata4 sites
- Doleroides4 sites
- Glyptorthis insculpta4 sites
- Gonioceras anceps4 sites
- Helopora4 sites
- Hemiphragmus imperfectus4 sites
- Hesperorthis4 sites
- Idiostrophis sp.4 sites
- Leperditia4 sites
- Liospira vitruvia4 sites
- Maclurites4 sites
- Michelinoceras4 sites
- Mimella4 sites
- Nicholsonella4 sites
- Oepikina minnesotensis4 sites
- Rostricella plena4 sites
- Solenopora4 sites
- Strophomena4 sites
- Strophomena planumbona4 sites
- Tetradium4 sites
- Paucicrura rogata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ophileta laevata, 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- Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia4
- Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods. Part II, Brevicones1
Each of the 5 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 Ophileta laevata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ophileta laevata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophileta laevata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itOphileta through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vanuxem 1842