Ophiotrapezium spinulosum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OphiotrapeziumPBDB
- 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 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 180.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 170.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ophiotrapezium spinulosum on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 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.
Ophiotrapezium spinulosum and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Ophiotrapezium spinulosum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Mesophiomusium geisingense3 sites
- Mesophiomusium scabrum3 sites
- Ophiacantha toarcensis3 sites
- Ophiarachna liasica3 sites
- Ophiocten seeweni3 sites
- Ophiopetra oertlii3 sites
- Ophiura astonensis3 sites
- Sigsbeia lunaris3 sites
- Sinosura brodiei3 sites
- Sinosura schneideri3 sites
- Ophiacantha dorecki2 sites
- Praetetracrinus inornatus2 sites
- Praetetracrinus kutscheri2 sites
- Shroshaecrinus quedlinburgensis2 sites
- Comptoniaster vrinensis1 site
- Galbaster recurrans1 site
- Ophiopholis trispinosa1 site
- Pentasteria liasica1 site
- Plesiastropecten hallovensis1 site
- Poncetaster crateri1 site
- Sinosura extensa1 site
- Sinosura fasciata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ophiotrapezium spinulosum, 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
2 references- Echinodermata aus dem Ober-Toarcium und Aalenium Deutschlands II: Ophiuroidea2
- Ophiuroid remains from the Toarcian of Sainte-Verge (Deux-Sevres, France): paleobiological perspectives1
Each of the 3 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 Ophiotrapezium spinulosum 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 Ophiotrapezium spinulosum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophiotrapezium spinulosum 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 itOphiotrapezium through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kutscher 1996