Osekaspis
No picture of Osekaspis 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 Osekaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheiruridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
7 occurrences of Osekaspis 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
7 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Osekaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Osekaspis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Osekaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Antigonambonites planus6 sites
- Apomatella ingrica6 sites
- Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus6 sites
- Linguloidea6 sites
- Lonchodomas volborthi6 sites
- Paurorthis6 sites
- Pseudocrania6 sites
- Ranorthis6 sites
- Ingria nefedjevi5 sites
- Paralenorthis orbicularis5 sites
- Porambonites planus5 sites
- Acrotretoid indet.4 sites
- Cybele bellatula4 sites
- Eosiphonotreta4 sites
- Nothortis sp.4 sites
- Productorthis parallela4 sites
- Ujukella fastigata4 sites
- Apomatella secunda3 sites
- Bornholmaspis3 sites
- Gonambonites3 sites
- Metopolichas3 sites
- Nileus3 sites
- Remopleurides3 sites
- Scotoharpes spasskii3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Osekaspis, 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
2 references- Upper Arenig trilobite biostratigraphy and sea-level changes at Lynna River near Volkhov, Russia6
- Chlupáč et al., 19981
Each 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. 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 Osekaspis 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 Osekaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Osekaspis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCheiruridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Prantl and Pribyl 1947