Ophthalmidium

Ophthalmidium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ForaminiferaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 235 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 41 of 235 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 101 of 235 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 27 of 235 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 34 of 235 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 21 of 235 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 235 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 235 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 235 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 235 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 235 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 235 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 235 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 235 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 13 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 35 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 19 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 13 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 18 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 44 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 14 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 7 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 35 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 13 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences244.4 Mya2.58 Mya252 Mya0 Mya

235 occurrences of Ophthalmidium on record, most of them in the Late 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

235 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

42 formations

Djangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°ESchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°EMisone limestone — 45.95°N, 10.83°EMisone limestone — 45.80°N, 10.95°EMisone limestone — 45.58°N, 10.83°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EHallstätt — 48.52°N, 20.48°EMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°ENayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°ENayband — 32.95°N, 52.08°ESchöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°ESteinmühl — 47.91°N, 14.35°EEsiri — 37.53°N, 29.73°EKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°ECamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°ERecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.17°EChaiburi — 7.12°N, 100.17°E

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The named rock units Ophthalmidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ophthalmidium and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Ophthalmidium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,098 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Ophthalmidium, 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

80 references

Each of the 235 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. 68 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Ophthalmidium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kübler and Zwingli 1870