Ophiocoma rasmusseni

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiocomaPBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Ophiocomidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiocomidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophiocomidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ophiocoma
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

9 occurrences of Ophiocoma rasmusseni on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

9 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

4 formations

Lower Chalk — 51.08°N, 1.18°ELower Chalk — 51.10°N, 1.30°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°E

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The named rock units Ophiocoma rasmusseni 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.

Ophiocoma rasmusseni and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ophiocoma rasmusseni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ophiocoma rasmusseni, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Ophiocoma rasmusseni 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 itOphiocoma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hess 1960