Dolichoharpes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HarpetidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Harpetidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Harpetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
43 occurrences of Dolichoharpes 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
43 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
20 formations
- Esbataottine Formation12
- Whittaker Formation4
- Mingan Formation4
- Edinburg Formation3
- Benbolt Formation2
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group2
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The named rock units Dolichoharpes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dolichoharpes and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dolichoharpes and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
489 taxa- Calyptaulax14 sites
- Ceraurinella11 sites
- Cybeloides cimelia11 sites
- Krausella11 sites
- Amphilichas10 sites
- Calyptaulax callirachis10 sites
- Ceratocephala triacantheis10 sites
- Holia glabra10 sites
- Walencrinuroides rolfi10 sites
- Aparchites9 sites
- Apianurus parabarbatus9 sites
- Bairdiocypris9 sites
- Bolbopisthia9 sites
- Isotelus9 sites
- Remopleurides pattersoni9 sites
- Bumastoides lenzi8 sites
- Ceraurinella nahanniensis8 sites
- Eurychilina8 sites
- Sphaerexochus8 sites
- Sphaerexochus arenosus8 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe8 sites
- Tetradella8 sites
- Acanthoparypha evitti7 sites
- Amphilichas conradi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Dolichoharpes, 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
17 references- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie7
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada7
- Ordovician trilobites from the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Ibexian-Late Whiterockian), Mingan Islands, Quebec4
- Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains4
- Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York4
- Platteville and Decorah Trilobites from Illinois and Wisconsin3
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites: Remopleuridae, Trinucleidae, Raphiophoridae, Endymioniidae3
- The fauna of the Kimmswick limestone of Missouri and Illinois2
- A new marrellomorph arthropod from southern Ontario: a rare case of soft-tissue preservation on a Late Ordovician open marine shelf1
- Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Advance Formation, a new upper Middle Ordovician unit, northern Rocky Mountains, British Columbia1
- Stratigraphy of the Ordovician of the Lac Saint-Jean and Chicoutimi outliers, Quebec1
- Macurdablastus, a Middle Ordovician Blastoid from the Southern Appalachians1
Each of the 43 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. 5 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 Dolichoharpes
- 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 of Dolichoharpes 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 itHarpetidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittington 1949