Colpocoryphe

Colpocoryphe is a genus of trilobites in the family Calymenidae.

Colpocoryphe

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColpocoryphinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Homalonotidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 147 occurrencesOrdovician — about 147 of 147 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 147 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 6 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 6 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 6 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 4 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 6 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 6 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 6 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 6 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 22 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 31 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 11 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 5 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya458.2 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

147 occurrences of Colpocoryphe 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

147 occurrences

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

49 formations

Upper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 30.50°N, 5.75°WUpper Fezouata — 32.00°N, 9.00°WUpper Fezouata — 31.42°N, 5.75°WUpper Fezouata — 27.88°N, 11.42°WUpper Fezouata — 27.82°N, 11.40°WUpper Fezouata — 29.90°N, 7.00°WUpper Fezouata — 30.33°N, 5.80°WUpper Fezouata — 30.40°N, 5.71°WUpper Fezouata — 30.82°N, 5.82°WLiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.74°N, 13.54°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESarka — 50.08°N, 14.75°ESarka — 50.18°N, 14.65°ESarka — 50.07°N, 14.72°ECouches du Foulon — 43.00°N, 3.00°ECouches du Foulon — 43.47°N, 3.05°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WLandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ELandeyran — 43.57°N, 3.37°ETachilla — 32.00°N, 4.00°WTachilla — 31.40°N, 5.33°WTachilla — 30.00°N, 8.50°WTachilla — 31.45°N, 4.17°WDobrotivá — 49.81°N, 13.86°EDobrotivá — 50.00°N, 14.11°EDobrotivá — 50.10°N, 14.34°EPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WPizarras Guindo — 38.76°N, 4.56°WPizarras Guindo — 38.62°N, 3.68°WBedinan — 37.28°N, 49.48°EBedinan — 35.87°N, 40.70°EKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECabeco do Peao — 39.00°N, 8.00°WCabeco do Peao — 40.00°N, 8.00°WCarregueira — 40.00°N, 8.00°WCarregueira — 39.00°N, 8.00°WTraveusot — 48.00°N, 2.00°WTraveusot — 47.97°N, 1.80°WLower Ktaoua — 31.00°N, 5.00°WLower Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.27°WSueve Shale — 43.47°N, 5.06°WSueve Shale — 43.00°N, 5.00°WSan Marcos — 40.93°N, 2.05°WSan Marcos — 40.72°N, 1.55°WArmorican Quartzite — 38.00°N, 4.00°WUntere Quartzite — 38.86°N, 4.08°WPontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WSuri — 28.00°S, 68.00°W

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The named rock units Colpocoryphe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colpocoryphe and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Colpocoryphe and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

913 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Colpocoryphe, 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

45 references

Each of the 147 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Colpocoryphe

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itColpocoryphinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novak and Perner 1918