Orbitoplax weaveri

Orbitoplax weaveri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbitoplaxPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 20 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Orbitoplax weaveri on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

20 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

8 formations

Lookingglass — 42.56°N, 124.02°WLookingglass — 43.03°N, 123.64°WLlajas — 34.27°N, 118.71°WMission Valley — 32.74°N, 117.02°WTejon — 36.36°N, 120.44°WMartinez — 37.96°N, 122.13°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WArdath — 32.90°N, 117.23°WCozy Dell — 34.55°N, 119.23°W

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The named rock units Orbitoplax weaveri 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.

Orbitoplax weaveri and its relatives

Eocene

Where Orbitoplax weaveri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Orbitoplax weaveri, 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 20 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 content1

Picture of Orbitoplax weaveri

Credit
Kevmin
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orbitoplax weaveri 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 itOrbitoplax through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rathbun 1926)