Osspecus

Searched as Osspecus panatlanticum. The Paleobiology Database treats Osspecus as the accepted name.

No picture of Osspecus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Osspecus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Eocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38.21 Mya33.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Osspecus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

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

Yazoo — 31.93°N, 88.46°W

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

Osspecus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Osspecus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

474 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Osspecus, 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

1 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Osspecus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Osspecus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Osspecus 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Higgs et al. 2012