Conocoryphe

Conocoryphe is a genus of primarily eyeless trilobites belonging to the family Conocoryphidae. They lived during the Middle Cambrian period, about 505 million years ago. These arthropods lived on the sea bottom (epifaunal) and lived off dead particulate organic matter.

Conocoryphe

Skye McDavid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConocoryphidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Conocoryphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508.2 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 44 of 44 occurrencesCambrian508–508 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 2 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 2 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 2 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence508.7 Mya496.5 Mya

44 occurrences of Conocoryphe on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

44 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

13 formations

Jince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EJince — 49.00°N, 14.00°ESosink — 37.30°N, 40.30°EKoruk — 37.42°N, 43.63°EOville — 43.00°N, 5.00°WOville — 42.85°N, 5.87°WQuartzites et Poudingues de Trémentines — 47.09°N, 0.25°WFerrals — 43.40°N, 2.63°EBuchava — 49.98°N, 13.77°EBuchava — 49.93°N, 14.05°ELos Villares — 38.00°N, 4.80°WPoudingue de Vihiers — 47.07°N, 1.11°WSkryje — 49.95°N, 13.77°ESenice — 49.88°N, 15.57°ESkryje Shale — 49.97°N, 13.77°EMurero — 41.17°N, 1.48°W

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The named rock units Conocoryphe has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Conocoryphe and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Conocoryphe and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Conocoryphe, 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

19 references

Each of the 44 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Conocoryphe

Credit
Skye McDavid
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itConocoryphidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847