Amphoriops
No picture of Amphoriops 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 Amphoriops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IllaenidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
9 occurrences of Amphoriops 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
9 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Amphoriops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphoriops and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Amphoriops and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Illaenus5 sites
- Dicranopeltis polytoma4 sites
- Illaenus angelini4 sites
- Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus4 sites
- Nileus3 sites
- Panarchaeogonus3 sites
- Ulugtella3 sites
- Actinopeltis spjeldnaesi2 sites
- Alceste2 sites
- Amphitryon2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Calipernurus2 sites
- Cekovia2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Christiania nilssoni2 sites
- Cyclopyge2 sites
- Dedzetina serpaglii2 sites
- Diacanthaspis2 sites
- Dysplanus (Zetillaenus)2 sites
- Failleana2 sites
- Foliomena folium2 sites
- Glyptorthis2 sites
- Harpidella2 sites
- Hispaniaspis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Amphoriops, 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
4 references- Trilobites of the post-Sardic (Upper Ordovician) sequence of southern Sardinia. Part I4
- Late Ordovician trilobites from northwest Iran and their biogeographical affinities2
- The Ordovician trilobites from the Iberian Chains in the province of Aragon, NE Spain, 1: The trilobites of the Cystoid Limestone (Ashgill Series)2
- Emergence of the Saucrorthis Fauna in the Middle Ordovician of northern Iran1
Each of the 9 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
Media content0
No picture of Amphoriops 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 Amphoriops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphoriops 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 itIllaenidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hammann and Leone 1997)