Buttsia inexpectata

No picture of Buttsia inexpectata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Buttsia inexpectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ButtsiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.3 Mya and 471.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475.8 Mya470.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Buttsia inexpectata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

1 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

1 formation

Valhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°E

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

Buttsia inexpectata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Buttsia inexpectata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Buttsia inexpectata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Buttsia inexpectata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Buttsia inexpectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itButtsia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1980