Opisthocoelus

No picture of Opisthocoelus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Opisthocoelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CardiolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 368.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesDevonian382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences382.8 Mya368 Mya

5 occurrences of Opisthocoelus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

5 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

3 formations

Ithaca — 42.44°N, 76.50°WPlattensandstein — 51.28°N, 7.18°ENehden — 51.43°N, 8.63°E

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The named rock units Opisthocoelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Opisthocoelus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Opisthocoelus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Opisthocoelus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content0

No picture of Opisthocoelus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Opisthocoelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Opisthocoelus 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 itCardiolinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beushausen 1895)