Atractopyge rex
No picture of Atractopyge rex 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 Atractopyge rex, 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 1.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458 Mya and 456.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Atractopyge rex 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
1 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
1 formation
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Atractopyge rex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Atractopyge rex and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Atractopyge rex and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Ahtioconcha1 site
- Aristerella1 site
- Bucania czekanowskii1 site
- Cyrtonotella1 site
- Hoplolichoides conicotuberculatus1 site
- Hormograptus1 site
- Kiaeromena estonensis1 site
- Nieszkowskia cephaloceras1 site
- Paraceraurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Atractopyge rex, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Atractopyge rex 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 Atractopyge rex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atractopyge rex 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.
Keep going
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. (Nieskowski 1857)