Ophiomyxa jekerica

No picture of Ophiomyxa jekerica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ophiomyxa jekerica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiomyxaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ophiomyxidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ophiomyxidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophiomyxidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Ophiomyxa jekerica 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

7 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°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EGulpen — 50.73°N, 5.67°E

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The named rock units Ophiomyxa jekerica 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.

Ophiomyxa jekerica and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ophiomyxa jekerica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

221 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ophiomyxa jekerica, 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

2 references

Each of the 7 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 Ophiomyxa jekerica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ophiomyxa jekerica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOphiomyxa through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Berry 1938)