Ocyplonessa shotwelli
No picture of Ocyplonessa shotwelli 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 Ocyplonessa shotwelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OcyplonessaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Anatinae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Anatinae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Anatinae
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.5 Mya and 9.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ocyplonessa shotwelli on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Ocyplonessa shotwelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ocyplonessa shotwelli and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ocyplonessa shotwelli and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Eremochen russelli2 sites
- Anouroneomys minimus1 site
- Archaeolaginae1 site
- Caninae1 site
- Carpocyon1 site
- Copemys dentalis1 site
- Cupidinimus1 site
- Eucastor malheurensis1 site
- Hesperosorex1 site
- Mammut1 site
- Merychyus1 site
- Querquedula pullulans1 site
- Scapanus shultzi1 site
- Spermophilus1 site
- Tayassuinae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ocyplonessa shotwelli, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ocyplonessa shotwelli 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 Ocyplonessa shotwelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ocyplonessa shotwelli 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 itOcyplonessa through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brodkorb 1961)