Ampyxoides occipitalis
No picture of Ampyxoides occipitalis 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 Ampyxoides occipitalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpyxoidesPBDB
- 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 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Ampyxoides occipitalis 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
2 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
2 formations
- Esbataottine Formation1
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Ampyxoides occipitalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ampyxoides occipitalis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ampyxoides occipitalis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Carolinites2 sites
- <cheirurid>1 site
- Acidiphorus lineotuberculatus1 site
- Ambalodus1 site
- Amorphognathus1 site
- Apatolichas jukesi1 site
- Benthamaspis sera1 site
- Bienvillia papulosa1 site
- Carolinites angustagena sibiricus1 site
- cf. Raphiophorous sp.1 site
- Cloacaspis tesselata1 site
- Cybelurus halo1 site
- Cybelurus occidentalis1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Drepanoistodus venustus1 site
- Ectenonotus whittingtoni1 site
- Eoplacognathus suecicus1 site
- Falodus prodentatus1 site
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis1 site
- Harpillaenus rossi1 site
- Hibbardella (Diplododella)1 site
- Histiodella sinuosa1 site
- Illaenus auriculatus1 site
- Ischyrotoma juabensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ampyxoides occipitalis, 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
2 references- Trilobites from the Base of the Type Whiterockian (Middle Ordovician) in Nevada1
- Ordovician trilobites from the Keele Range, Northwestern Yukon Territory1
Each 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 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 Ampyxoides occipitalis 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 Ampyxoides occipitalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ampyxoides occipitalis 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 itAmpyxoides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dean 1973