Ospia

Ospia is an extinct genus of neopterygian ray-finned fish that lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland. Fossils were found in the Wordie Creek Formation.

No picture of Ospia 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 Ospia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParasemionotidaePBDB
Diet
grazer, detritivorePBDB, for Parasemionotidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 1.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 250.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252.4 Mya250.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Ospia on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

2 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.

Ospia and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Ospia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ospia, 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

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ospia 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 Ospia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ospia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itParasemionotidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stensiö 1932