Carolinites ekphymosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarolinitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Carolinites
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carolinites
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carolinites
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Carolinites ekphymosus 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
10 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 Carolinites ekphymosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carolinites ekphymosus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Carolinites ekphymosus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Bienvillia papulosa2 sites
- Ectenonotus progenitor2 sites
- Globampyx trinucleoides2 sites
- Goniotelina ensifer2 sites
- Hungioides acutinasus2 sites
- Hypermecaspis brevifrons2 sites
- Hypermecaspis latigena2 sites
- Lycophron rex2 sites
- Nambeetella embolion2 sites
- Norasaphus (Norasaphites) vesiculosus2 sites
- Peraspis omega2 sites
- Psephosthenaspis pseudobathyurus2 sites
- Ampyx toxotis1 site
- Ampyxoides inermis1 site
- Annamitella strigifrons1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Carolinites killaryensis1 site
- Cloacaspis ekphymosa1 site
- Cloacaspis senilis1 site
- Cybelurus brutoni1 site
- Diacanthaspis1 site
- Endymionia clavaria1 site
- Evropeites hyperboreus1 site
- Falanaspis extensa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Carolinites ekphymosus, 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
3 references- Trilobites at the base of the Middle Ordovician, western United States4
- Early Ordovician trilobites, Nora Formation, central Australia3
- The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. III. Remaining trilobites of the Valhallfonna Formation3
Each of the 10 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 Carolinites ekphymosus 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 Carolinites ekphymosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Carolinites ekphymosus 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 itCarolinites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1975