Corynexochus
Searched as Corynexochus terminalis n. sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Corynexochus as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CorynexochidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Corynexochus 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Corynexochus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Corynexochus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Corynexochus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
233 taxa- Solenopleura4 sites
- Acrothele3 sites
- Anabolotreta3 sites
- Anopolenus3 sites
- Bailiaspis3 sites
- Diplagnostus planicauda3 sites
- Dorypygina3 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons3 sites
- Lejopyge laevigatus3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Olenaspella evansi3 sites
- Paradoxides3 sites
- Aldanaspis2 sites
- Bathyuriscus2 sites
- Cotalagnostus lens2 sites
- Cotalagnostus rotundus2 sites
- Dactylotreta2 sites
- Dawsonia2 sites
- Dictyonina2 sites
- Diplorrhina depressa2 sites
- Eodiscus scanicus2 sites
- Glaberagnostus bituberculatus2 sites
- Homagnostus2 sites
- Innitagnostus inexpectans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Corynexochus, 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 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 content1
Picture of Corynexochus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corynexochus 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 itCorynexochidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1854