Atractopyge confusa
No picture of Atractopyge confusa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Atractopyge confusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtractopygePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Atractopyge
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Atractopyge confusa 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Atractopyge confusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atractopyge confusa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Atractopyge confusa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Remopleurides nikolaiseni4 sites
- Amphilichas dalecarlicus2 sites
- Erratencrinurus (Celtencrinurus) kiaeri2 sites
- Hadromeros keisleyensis2 sites
- Hibbertia inghami2 sites
- Holotrachelus punctillosus2 sites
- Lonchodomas2 sites
- Sphaerexochus bridgei2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe kingi2 sites
- Actinoceras insulaenigrae1 site
- Ambonychia1 site
- Amphilichas lineatus1 site
- Armenoceras holtedahli1 site
- Billingsites deformis1 site
- Brevilamnulella kjerulfi1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Cyclendoceras dubium1 site
- Cyphoproetus svartoensis1 site
- Danoceras breve1 site
- Diestoceras stormeri1 site
- Discoceras antiquissima1 site
- Illaenus linnarssoni1 site
- Megalomphala pinguis1 site
- Mesotaphraspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Atractopyge confusa, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 Atractopyge confusa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Atractopyge confusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atractopyge confusa 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 itAtractopyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1981