Ophiletina sublaxa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiletinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiletina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiletina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Ophiletina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
21 occurrences of Ophiletina sublaxa 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
21 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
15 formations
- Kangaroo Creek Formation3
- Platteville Formation2
- Dubuque Formation · Galena Group2
- Quimbys Mill Formation · Platteville Group2
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
- Murfreesboro Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Ophiletina sublaxa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophiletina sublaxa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ophiletina sublaxa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
262 taxa- Hormotoma gracilis15 sites
- Lophospira perangulata14 sites
- Eunema centralis11 sites
- Clathrospira subconica10 sites
- Lophospira serrulata10 sites
- Tetranota obsoleta10 sites
- Tetranota sexcarinata10 sites
- Vanuxemia10 sites
- Alaskadiscus subacutus9 sites
- Cyrtodonta9 sites
- Cyrtodontula9 sites
- Eunema helicteres9 sites
- Holopea ampla9 sites
- Holopea rotunda9 sites
- Lesueurilla beloitensis9 sites
- Lophospira ventricosa9 sites
- Loxobucania emmonsi9 sites
- Maclurina bigsbyi9 sites
- Maclurites nitidus9 sites
- Paraliospira supracingulata9 sites
- Phragmolites triangularis9 sites
- Salpingostoma buelli9 sites
- Tetranota wisconsinensis9 sites
- Trochonema umbilicata9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Ophiletina sublaxa, 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
6 references- Stratigraphic ranges of Middle and Late Ordovician Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of Minnesota13
- Ordovician - Devonian Gastropoda from the Klamath Mountains, California3
- The Lower Silurian Gastropoda of Minnesota2
- Molluscan and brachiopod dominated biofacies in the Platteville Formation (Middle Ordovician), upper Mississippi Valley1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
- Paleontology of the disturbed Ordovician rocks near Kentland, Indiana1
Each of the 21 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 Ophiletina sublaxa 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 Ophiletina sublaxa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiletina sublaxa 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 itOphiletina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897