Offneria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaprinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Offneria on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
25 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Offneria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Offneria and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Offneria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Caprina4 sites
- Glossomyophorus4 sites
- Pachytraga4 sites
- Agriopleura3 sites
- Palorbitolina3 sites
- Amphitriscoelus waringi2 sites
- Bacinella2 sites
- Himeraelites2 sites
- Horiopleura2 sites
- Iraqia2 sites
- Orbitolina2 sites
- Praecaprina2 sites
- Praeorbitolina2 sites
- Requienia2 sites
- ? Rectodictyconus giganteus1 site
- Amphiastrea1 site
- Amphiastrea aethiopica1 site
- Amphiaulastrea1 site
- Amphiaulastrea conferta1 site
- Amphitriscoelus pluriloculata1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Apocladophyllia1 site
- Arenobulimina1 site
- Astraeofungia diversisepta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Offneria, 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
11 references- The Lower Cretaceous (Upper Barremian-Lower Aptian) caprinid rudists from Northern Oman11
- A palaeobiological window into the Lower Cretaceous Cupido Formation2
- Offneria arabica nov. sp. (rudiste, Caprinidae) de l'Aptien inferieur du Jebel Madar (Sultanat d'Oman) [Offneria arabica nov. sp. (rudist, Caprinidae) of the Lower Aptian of Jebel Madar (Sultanate of Oman)]2
- Lower Cretaceous Rudist faunas of Southeast Spain: an overview2
- Korallen und Rudisten aus dem Apt im tertiären Flysch des Parnass-Gebirges bei Delphi-Arachowa (Mittelgriechenland)2
- Lower Aptian rudist faunas (Bivalvia, Hippuritoidea) from Croatia1
- Montlivaltia multiformis Toula (Scleractinia) from the Aptian of the Prebetic Domain (SE Spain)1
- A platform-to-basin transition for lower Aptian carbonates (Shuaiba Formation) of the northeastern Jebel Akhdar (Sultanate of Oman)1
- The rudist Amphitriscoelus (Bivalvia-Hippuritacea) in the lower Cretaceous of southwestern Mexico1
- Stratigraphy, composition and age of Cuban rudist-bearing deposits1
- Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud1
Each of the 25 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
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No picture of Offneria 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 Offneria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCaprinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paquier 1905