Chirurus pectinifer
No picture of Chirurus pectinifer was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Chirurus pectinifer firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Chirurus pectinifer 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.
Chirurus pectinifer and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Chirurus pectinifer and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Agnostus2 sites
- Amphitryon murchisonii2 sites
- Ampyx2 sites
- Asaphus2 sites
- Chirurus insignis2 sites
- Dindymene2 sites
- Dionide2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus angelini2 sites
- Lonchodomas portlocki2 sites
- Phacops2 sites
- Phillipsia2 sites
- Staurocephalus clavifrons2 sites
- Symphysurus2 sites
- Trinucleus2 sites
- Areia1 site
- Chirurus subulatus1 site
- Cybellela dentata1 site
- Cyclopyge1 site
- Diplograptus1 site
- Diplograptus pristis1 site
- Prionocheilus pulchra1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) ravni1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chirurus pectinifer, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Chirurus pectinifer was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Chirurus pectinifer firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Chirurus pectinifer 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 itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.