Ampyxella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphiophorinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Raphiophoridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Raphiophoridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 450.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 20 of 20 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454 Mya450.5 Mya458.7 Mya449 Mya

20 occurrences of Ampyxella 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

20 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

6 formations

Solvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 60.13°N, 10.28°ESolvang — 59.88°N, 10.72°ESolvang — 61.33°N, 8.80°ESolvang — 59.90°N, 10.63°ENakkholmen — 61.33°N, 8.80°ENakkholmen — 59.90°N, 10.63°ENakkholmen — 59.84°N, 10.54°EYinGan — 41.00°N, 79.00°EOnny Shale — 52.60°N, 2.55°WJianchaogou — 33.00°N, 108.00°EActon Scott — 52.00°N, 2.00°W

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The named rock units Ampyxella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ampyxella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ampyxella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

160 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Ampyxella, 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

7 references

Each of the 20 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 Ampyxella 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 Ampyxella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ampyxella 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 itRaphiophorinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dean 1960