Amphilichas minganensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphilichasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
36 occurrences of Amphilichas minganensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
36 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group12
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group12
- Mingan Formation5
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group3
- Copenhagen Formation2
- Cliffield Formation1
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The named rock units Amphilichas minganensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphilichas minganensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Amphilichas minganensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Stenopareia globosus18 sites
- Pliomerops canadensis16 sites
- Isotelus harrisi13 sites
- Calyptaulax annulata12 sites
- Sphaerexochus parvus12 sites
- Leperditia canadensis11 sites
- Bucania sulcatina10 sites
- Hibbertia valcourensis9 sites
- Remopleurides canadensis9 sites
- Ceraurinella latipyga8 sites
- Onychoplecia longirostris8 sites
- Thaleops ovata8 sites
- Ceraurinella pompilia7 sites
- Dactylogonia incrassata7 sites
- Failleana limbata7 sites
- Glaphurus pustulatus7 sites
- Lonchodomas chaziensis7 sites
- Mimella vulgaris7 sites
- Multicostella platys7 sites
- Platillaenus erastusi6 sites
- Raphistoma stamineum6 sites
- Sphaerexochus valcourensis6 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe6 sites
- Stictopora fenestrata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Amphilichas minganensis, 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
6 references- The Chazy Formation and its fauna16
- Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York11
- Ordovician trilobites from the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Ibexian-Late Whiterockian), Mingan Islands, Quebec5
- Distribution of the Middle Ordovician Copenhagen Formation and its trilobites in Nevada2
- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia1
- The fauna of the Chazy Limestone1
Each of the 36 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 Amphilichas minganensis 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 Amphilichas minganensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphilichas minganensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAmphilichas through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)