Erratencrinurus
Erratencrinurus is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now northern Germany. It was described from glacial erratics by Krueger in 1972, and the type species is Erratencrinurus capricornu.
No picture of Erratencrinurus 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 Erratencrinurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EncrinurinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 8.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
62 occurrences of Erratencrinurus 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
62 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
30 formations
- Langåra Formation9
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group8
- Husbergøya Formation5
- Shipshaw Formation5
- Prosser Limestone Formation2
- Wise Lake Formation · Galena Group2
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The named rock units Erratencrinurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Erratencrinurus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Erratencrinurus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
543 taxa- Isotelus gigas20 sites
- Paucicrura rogata16 sites
- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus15 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra14 sites
- Glyptorthis bellarugosa14 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria14 sites
- Parastrophina14 sites
- Pseudolingula iowensis14 sites
- Dinorthis meedsi13 sites
- Sowerbyella minnesotensis13 sites
- Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) senaria12 sites
- Illaenus12 sites
- Rafinesquina deltoidea11 sites
- Hiscobeccus capax10 sites
- Strophomena trilobata10 sites
- Rafinesquina trentonensis9 sites
- Cyclospira bisulcata8 sites
- Orbiculoidea8 sites
- Platystrophia trentonensis8 sites
- Rhynchotrema8 sites
- Zygospira uphami8 sites
- Bumastus orbicaudatus7 sites
- Dinorthis pectinella7 sites
- Sceptaspis lincolnensis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Erratencrinurus, 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
22 references- The Ashgill Trilobites of the Oslo Region, Norway16
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area9
- Brachiopods and trilobites of the Sardeson Beds in the Twin Cities5
- Selected Ordovician trilobites from the Lake St. John District of Quebec and their bearing on systematics4
- Ecological associations in a regressive sequence: the latest Ordovician of the Oslo-Asker district, Norway4
- A revision of the upper Ordovician trilobite genus Erratencrinurus with a description of a new species from Hadeland3
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario3
- Upper Ordovician Phacopida (Trilobita) from Tasmania2
- The age, stratigraphy and genesis of the Coniston Limestone Group in the southern Lake District2
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the families Encrinuridae and Staurocephalidae2
- Late Ordovician rostroconchs (Mollusca) from fluvial erratics in northwestern Europe1
- Late Ordovician Trilobites from the Xiazhen Formation in Zhuzhai, Jiangxi Province, China1
Each of the 62 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. 10 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
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No picture of Erratencrinurus 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 Erratencrinurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erratencrinurus 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEncrinurinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krueger 1971