Degamella

Degamella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclopygidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya448.8 Mya487.2 Mya444.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Degamella 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

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

6 formations

Sarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESarka — 50.08°N, 14.75°ESarka — 50.18°N, 14.65°EPontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WCyffredm Shale — 51.80°N, 4.63°WLlanfallteg — 51.85°N, 4.92°WVolcancito — 29.33°S, 67.80°WDobrotivá — 50.10°N, 14.34°E

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The named rock units Degamella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Degamella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Degamella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Degamella, 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

8 references

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 content1

Picture of Degamella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marek 1961