Dimeropyge virginiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimeropygePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dimeropygidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dimeropyge virginiensis 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Dimeropyge virginiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dimeropyge virginiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dimeropyge virginiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Remopleurides caelatus2 sites
- Sphaerexochus pulcher2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe gemina2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe longispina2 sites
- Tretaspis sagenosus2 sites
- Trinodus elspethi2 sites
- Acanthoparypha perforata1 site
- Ampyx virginiensis1 site
- Apianurus1 site
- Apianurus barbatus1 site
- Apianurus glaber1 site
- Bevanopsis ulrichi1 site
- Calipernurus insolitus1 site
- Calyptaulax callirachis1 site
- Calyptaulax strasburgensis1 site
- Ceratocephala laciniata1 site
- Ceraurinella typa1 site
- Chomatopyge falcata1 site
- Diacanthaspis lepidus1 site
- Diacanthaspis secretus1 site
- Diacanthaspis ulrichi1 site
- Dolichoharpes reticulata1 site
- Holia cimelia1 site
- Libertella corona1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimeropyge virginiensis, 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
2 references- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: Remopleuridae, Trinucleidae, Raphiophoridae, Endymioniidae1
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Dimeropyge virginiensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dimeropyge virginiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimeropyge virginiensis 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 itDimeropyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittington and Evitt 1953