Ferenepea
No picture of Ferenepea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ferenepea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NepeidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Nepeidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 499 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ferenepea 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
2 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
2 formations
- Mungerebar Formation1
- Spurs Formation · Mariner Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Ferenepea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ferenepea and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ferenepea and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acmarhachis typicalis1 site
- Aedotes1 site
- Agelagma quadratum1 site
- Ammagnostus1 site
- Ammagnostus antarcticus1 site
- Blackwelderia1 site
- Carrosella1 site
- Catillicephalina glasgowensis1 site
- Cermataspis1 site
- Coosia1 site
- Damesellidae1 site
- Dolichometopidae1 site
- Doremataspis1 site
- Doremataspis contracta1 site
- Dorypyge1 site
- Euchasma1 site
- Griphasaphus1 site
- Hadragnostus las1 site
- Henadoparia integra1 site
- Idolagnostus1 site
- Jamrogia jamrogensis1 site
- Leichneyella1 site
- Liostracinidae1 site
- Meropalla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ferenepea, 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- An 'Acmarhachis typicalis' zone trilobite fauna from the Cambrian of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica1
- Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ferenepea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ferenepea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ferenepea was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNepeidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1967