Opisthophyllum

No picture of Opisthophyllum 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 Opisthophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiastreidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya121.4 Mya145.7 Mya112.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Opisthophyllum 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

10 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

4 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EXarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°ELangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°E

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The named rock units Opisthophyllum 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

269 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Opisthophyllum, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 Opisthophyllum 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 Opisthophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Opisthophyllum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ogilvie 1897