Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti
Fischer, Jean-Claude · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- Opis (Trigonopis)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Lima (Plagiostoma) hellica2 sites
- Placunopsis socialis2 sites
- Pteroperna costatula2 sites
- Acanthothiris spinosa1 site
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Ataphrus1 site
- Aulacothyris carinata1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Barbatia legayi1 site
- Brachytrema1 site
- Cadomites (Cadomites) rectelobatus1 site
- Calliomphalus1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptochlamys) rosimon1 site
- Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) orbignyana1 site
- Ceratomya concentrica1 site
- Ceratomyopsis undulata1 site
- Chiton1 site
- Coelastarte1 site
- Coelopis1 site
- Conorhytis1 site
- Cosmocerithium1 site
- Crania1 site
- Cryptaulax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti, 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- Geologie, Paleontologie et Paleoecologie du Bathonien au sud-ouest du Massif Ardennais1
- Les recifs bathoniens de Normandie1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Opis (Trigonopis) lycetti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Fischer, Jean-Claude
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- 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 itOpis (Trigonopis) through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bigot 1895