Ophileta supraplana
No picture of Ophileta supraplana 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 Ophileta supraplana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Ophileta supraplana 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- Cambrian7%
- Ordovician93%
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
4 formations
- Oneota Dolomite Formation2
- Chepultepec Formation1
- Gasconade Formation1
- Watts Bight Formation · St. George Group1
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The named rock units Ophileta supraplana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophileta supraplana and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ophileta supraplana and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Gasconadia putilla3 sites
- Eremoceras teres2 sites
- Sinuopea basiplanata2 sites
- Bathyurus ellipticus1 site
- Buehleroceras compressum1 site
- Burenoceras curticei1 site
- Burenoceras minor1 site
- Burenoceras pumilum1 site
- Caseoceras conicum1 site
- Caseoceras sequatchiense1 site
- Ceratopea grandis1 site
- Chepultapecia leiosomella1 site
- Clarkoceras calvini1 site
- Clarkoceras curvatum1 site
- Clarkoceras gracile1 site
- Clarkoceras jasperense1 site
- Clarkoceras luthei1 site
- Clarkoceras newtonwinchelli1 site
- Conocerina obliqua1 site
- Dakeoceras perretrorsum1 site
- Ectenoceras arcuosutum1 site
- Ectenoceras obliquum1 site
- Eremoceras vernonense1 site
- Euomphalopsis involuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ophileta supraplana, 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
3 references- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)3
- Stratigraphic studies of the Watts Bight Formation (St. George Group), Port au Port Peninsula, Western Newfoundland1
- Systematic Paleontology1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ophileta supraplana 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 Ophileta supraplana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophileta supraplana 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. Ulrich et al. 1931