Oeselia
No picture of Oeselia 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 Oeselia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OeseliidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Oeselia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Oeselia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oeselia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Oeselia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Ctenognathodus murchisoni5 sites
- Oulodus excavatus5 sites
- Oulodus siluricus5 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica5 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens5 sites
- Paralogania martinssoni5 sites
- Pterygolepis nitida5 sites
- Rytidolepis quenstedtii5 sites
- Thelodus laevis5 sites
- Thyestes verrucosus5 sites
- Wurmiella excavata5 sites
- Ctenognathodus4 sites
- Rhyncholepis parvula4 sites
- Ozarkodina snajdri3 sites
- Saaremaaspis mickwitzi3 sites
- Schidiosteus mustelensis3 sites
- Tremataspis milleri3 sites
- Tremataspis schmidti3 sites
- Kockelella2 sites
- Meelaidaspis gennadii2 sites
- Oeselaspis pustulata2 sites
- Rhyncholepis butriangula2 sites
- Kockelella ? spp.1 site
- Ozarkodina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Oeselia, 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 5 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 Oeselia 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 Oeselia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oeselia 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 itOeseliidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marss 2005