Offleya inexpectata
No picture of Offleya inexpectata 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 Offleya inexpectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OffleyaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Offleya inexpectata 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Offleya inexpectata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Offleya inexpectata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Offleya inexpectata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Coelocyclus groenlandicus1 site
- Liospira perdepressa1 site
- Pterinea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Offleya 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 referenceEach 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
Media content0
No picture of Offleya inexpectata 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 Offleya inexpectata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Offleya inexpectata 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 itOffleya through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poulsen 1974