Ornopsis

Ornopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BuccinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 74 of 75 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 75 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 5 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

75 occurrences of Ornopsis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

75 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

12 formations

Prairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.08°N, 87.03°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 30.25°N, 97.54°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.60°N, 98.03°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°EEl Piojo — 35.73°N, 120.93°W

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The named rock units Ornopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ornopsis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ornopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,040 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Ornopsis, 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

13 references

Each of the 75 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Ornopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Wade 1916