Ophiotitanos
No picture of Ophiotitanos 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 Ophiotitanos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiurinaePBDB
- 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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
9 occurrences of Ophiotitanos on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Ophiotitanos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
246 taxa- Ophiomusium4 sites
- Anahamulina2 sites
- Apsendesia neocomiensis2 sites
- Aspidaster2 sites
- Asteriaceros papulosus2 sites
- Bandellina2 sites
- Brouzetdiscus2 sites
- Caletaster barremicus2 sites
- Colostracon (Ovactaeonina)2 sites
- Colpomphalus2 sites
- Costatomphalus michaillensis2 sites
- Coulonia neocomiensis2 sites
- Cryptocoenia biedai2 sites
- Cryptocoenia desori2 sites
- Cryptocoenia miyakoensis2 sites
- Falsoebala2 sites
- Fissurellidae2 sites
- Forcipulatida2 sites
- Goniasteridae2 sites
- Hoplopteryx lewesiensis2 sites
- Melchiorites2 sites
- Mesohibolitidae2 sites
- Mesomorpha urgonensis2 sites
- Neocylindrites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ophiotitanos, 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- A Monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous formations. Volume second: The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea5
- Barremian ophiuroids from the Serre de Bleyton (Drôme, SE France)4
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
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No picture of Ophiotitanos 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 Ophiotitanos, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiotitanos 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 itOphiurinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1907