Otarion

Otarion

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OtarioniniPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 46 of 240 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 83 of 240 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 111 of 240 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 240 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–455 Mya — about 9 occurrences455–451 Mya — about 10 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 8 occurrences443–438 Mya — about 5 occurrences438–434 Mya — about 6 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 12 occurrences430–426 Mya — about 21 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 32 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 12 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 14 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 36 occurrences410–406 Mya — about 6 occurrences406–402 Mya — about 6 occurrences402–397 Mya — about 8 occurrences397–393 Mya — about 10 occurrences393–389 Mya — about 7 occurrences389–385 Mya — about 4 occurrences385–381 Mya — about 3 occurrences381–377 Mya — about 3 occurrences377–373 Mya — about 5 occurrences373–369 Mya — about 2 occurrences369–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468 Mya365.2 Mya479 Mya356 Mya

240 occurrences of Otarion on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

240 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

102 formations

Kopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EKopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.00°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EDelorme — 62.77°N, 125.25°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WLochkov — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkov — 50.08°N, 14.47°ELochkov — 49.95°N, 14.08°ELochkov — 49.50°N, 14.33°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EPozary — 50.00°N, 17.78°EPozary — 49.52°N, 13.50°EBlue Fiord — 76.30°N, 99.30°WBlue Fiord — 76.00°N, 99.00°WWhite Head — 48.50°N, 64.25°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WLochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°ELochkow — 49.97°N, 14.13°ELochkow — 49.98°N, 14.33°EWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.77°N, 125.25°WHanson Creek — 39.38°N, 116.14°WHanson Creek — 39.00°N, 116.00°WStinava-Chabicov — 50.00°N, 17.00°EStinava-Chabicov — 49.00°N, 17.00°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WCoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EHardwood Mountain — 45.72°N, 69.85°WConfinis Flags — 55.19°N, 4.75°WNahanni — 61.25°N, 124.00°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WLinxiang — 30.00°N, 111.00°ELinxiang — 31.00°N, 111.00°EMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WZelkovice — 50.00°N, 14.05°EShoul Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.27°W

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The named rock units Otarion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 78 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otarion and its relatives

Devonian

Where Otarion and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 221 sites for Otarion, 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

103 references

Each of the 240 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. 91 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 Otarion

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Zenker 1833