Oesia

No picture of Oesia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Oesia itself, so it was not used. 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 Oesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EnteropneustaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
fast-movingPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 38 of 38 occurrencesCambrian517–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 4 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509.7 Mya504.5 Mya516.5 Mya496.5 Mya

38 occurrences of Oesia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

38 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

12 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WKinzers — 40.08°N, 76.35°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.07°N, 76.37°WWheeler Shale — 39.20°N, 113.30°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.08°WKutorgina — 61.13°N, 126.80°ELead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WLower Wheeler Shale — 40.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WRennie Shale — 47.98°N, 116.35°WLatham — 34.59°N, 115.52°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°W

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

Oesia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Oesia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

380 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Oesia, 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

14 references

Each of the 38 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Oesia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Oesia itself, so it was not used.

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 Oesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oesia 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 itEnteropneusta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1911