Ophioplax

Ophioplax

Uncredited · 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
OphionereididaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Ophionereididae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Ophionereididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophionereididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Ophiuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ophiuroidea

Time the record covers

At most 3.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrence165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.8 Mya161 Mya

1 occurrence of Ophioplax on record, most of them in the Middle 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

1 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

1 formation

Oxford Clay — 51.50°N, 2.06°W

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The named rock units Ophioplax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ophioplax and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ophioplax and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ophioplax, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ophioplax

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ophioplax 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itOphionereididae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lyman 1875