Ophiocten

Ophiocten

RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie Hennion - 2014 · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiuridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–188 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences188–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192.9 Mya72.2 Mya202 Mya59 Mya

9 occurrences of Ophiocten on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMiddle Lias — 52.02°N, 1.71°WBridport Sand — 50.71°N, 2.76°W

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The named rock units Ophiocten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophiocten and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Ophiocten and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ophiocten, 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

5 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 content1

Picture of Ophiocten

Credit
RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Marie Hennion - 2014
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ophiocten 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.

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What may have been alongside itOphiuridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lütken 1855