Otarion (Otarion) balanops
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Otarion (Otarion)PBDB
- 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 most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Otarion (Otarion) balanops 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Otarion (Otarion) balanops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Otarion (Otarion) balanops and its relatives
DevonianWhere Otarion (Otarion) balanops and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Dechenella (Dechenella) maclareni4 sites
- Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata3 sites
- Ancyropyge3 sites
- Astycoryphe3 sites
- Harpes ormistoni3 sites
- Leonaspis3 sites
- Warrenella3 sites
- Eremiproetus tozeri2 sites
- Kettneraspis elliptica2 sites
- Platyscutellum2 sites
- Animalia1 site
- Asterolepis1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Aulacopleura beyrichi1 site
- Dechenella1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) franklini1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) paramaclareni1 site
- Dechenella perscheii1 site
- Dechenella planimarginata1 site
- Deltadechenella bathurstensis1 site
- Digonophyllum1 site
- Harpes1 site
- Harpes macrocephalus1 site
- Humeia retusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Otarion (Otarion) balanops, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Otarion (Otarion) balanops was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Otarion (Otarion) balanops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Otarion (Otarion) balanops 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 itOtarion (Otarion) through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erben 1953