Ophioderma squamosum
No picture of Ophioderma squamosum 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 Ophioderma squamosum, 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 most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ophioderma squamosum on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Ophioderma squamosum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ophioderma squamosum and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Ophioderma squamosum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Dadocrinus2 sites
- Aspiduriella scutellata1 site
- Aspiduriella similis1 site
- Bakevellia costata1 site
- Balatonites ottonis1 site
- Beneckeia buchi1 site
- Bronzoria discoides1 site
- Carnallicrinus carnalli1 site
- Cassianella1 site
- Catella impressa1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cidaris subnobilis1 site
- Cladeiodon1 site
- Coelostylina gregaria1 site
- Coenothyris vulgaris1 site
- Cymatosaurus fridericianus1 site
- Cymatosaurus latifrons1 site
- Cypricardia1 site
- Dadocrinus gracilis1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Dentalium laeve1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Elegantinia elegans1 site
- Encrinus aculeatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ophioderma squamosum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 squamosum 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 Ophioderma squamosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophioderma squamosum 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 itOphioderma through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schöndorf 1913