Orthopsis

Orthopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthopsidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 50 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 50 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 50 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya60 Mya

50 occurrences of Orthopsis 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

50 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

25 formations

Maastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.64°EAbu Qada — 29.67°N, 34.50°EAbu Qada — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAbu Qada — 29.63°N, 34.40°ECabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.81°WAruma — 27.95°N, 43.90°EAruma — 24.20°N, 47.69°EMauddud — 25.90°N, 56.07°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°EHalal — 30.79°N, 33.48°EHalal — 30.67°N, 33.42°ECraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°EMujarrun — 6.57°S, 78.73°WConor — 6.57°S, 78.73°WSecond niveau de Calcaires à Rudistes — 45.95°N, 1.08°WMarnes à Toxaster — 38.81°N, 9.47°WArén — 42.17°N, 0.90°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°ERiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WGalala — 29.27°N, 34.72°EBahamite sequence — 53.77°N, 14.08°ECoñor — 7.16°S, 78.51°WWasia — 24.20°N, 47.67°ECotinguiba — 11.00°S, 37.31°WRiachuelo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WDenison — 33.76°N, 96.54°W

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

Orthopsis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Orthopsis, 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

23 references

Each of the 50 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. 11 further references are 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 content1

Picture of Orthopsis

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

No 3D scan of Orthopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOrthopsidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cotteau 1864