Ophioderma spectabilis

No picture of Ophioderma spectabilis 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 Ophioderma spectabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiodermaPBDB
Diet
carnivore, detritivorePBDB, for Ophiodermatidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiodermatidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophiodermatidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161.5 Mya157.9 Mya165.8 Mya154.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Ophioderma spectabilis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

4 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

2 formations

Humeralis Schichten — 47.47°N, 7.37°EGünsberg-Schichten — 47.33°N, 7.60°E

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The named rock units Ophioderma spectabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophioderma spectabilis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ophioderma spectabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ophioderma spectabilis, 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

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Ophioderma spectabilis 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 Ophioderma spectabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ophioderma spectabilis 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 itOphioderma through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hess 1966