Acheilus oryx
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeracheilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acheilus oryx on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group2
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The named rock units Acheilus oryx has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acheilus oryx and its relatives
CambrianWhere Acheilus oryx and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Acheilops1 site
- Acheilus monile1 site
- Highgatella1 site
- Highgatella cordilleri1 site
- Parakoldinioidia stitti1 site
- Plethometopus dubius1 site
- Raymondina1 site
- Stenopilus latus1 site
- Symphysurina1 site
- Theodenisia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acheilus oryx, 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 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 Acheilus oryx 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 Acheilus oryx, 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 itPeracheilus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1983