Oppelismilia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OppelismiliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
solitary, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 16 of 17 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–199 Mya — about 5 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 2 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya192.9 Mya238 Mya173 Mya

17 occurrences of Oppelismilia 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

17 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

7 formations

Waterloo — 54.86°N, 5.81°WPiedra Pintada — 40.13°S, 70.27°WSutton stone — 51.43°N, 3.55°WDunlap — 38.48°N, 118.35°WCalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 11.13°EMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WGurumdy — 37.78°N, 73.66°E

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The named rock units Oppelismilia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oppelismilia and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Oppelismilia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Oppelismilia, 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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 Oppelismilia 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 Oppelismilia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oppelismilia 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 itOppelismiliidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1867