Flexicalymene meeki

Flexicalymene meeki

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FlexicalymenePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Calymenidae
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Flexicalymene
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Flexicalymene
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Calymenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 700 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 138 of 138 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 138 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 11 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 53 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 9 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 9 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 9 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 9 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 9 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 9 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 6 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya – 449.5 Mya458.7 Mya442.6 Mya

138 occurrences of Flexicalymene meeki 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

138 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

23 formations

Corryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCorryville — 38.68°N, 83.79°WCorryville — 39.33°N, 84.07°WWaynesville — 39.53°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.38°N, 84.08°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.05°WWaynesville — 39.36°N, 84.36°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.33°N, 84.07°WWaynesville — 38.77°N, 85.36°WSunset — 39.34°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.37°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.41°N, 84.50°WSunset — 39.13°N, 84.62°WSunset — 38.61°N, 83.77°WMiamitown — 39.12°N, 84.51°WMiamitown — 39.17°N, 84.58°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WBull Fork — 38.40°N, 83.72°WOregonia — 39.54°N, 84.34°WOregonia — 39.13°N, 84.60°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WFairview — 39.30°N, 84.40°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WBellevue — 39.17°N, 84.12°WBellevue — 39.30°N, 84.40°WBellevue — 38.68°N, 83.79°WBellevue — 39.11°N, 84.51°WGrant Lake — 39.25°N, 84.25°WGrant Lake — 38.67°N, 83.82°WWhitby — 45.50°N, 81.00°WWhitby — 44.53°N, 80.38°WWhitewater — 38.60°N, 85.28°WKope — 38.80°N, 84.16°WLiberty — 38.78°N, 85.37°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WUpper Whitewater — 38.78°N, 85.36°WGilbert — 37.58°N, 84.60°WTate — 37.58°N, 84.61°WLower Whitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WMount Auburn — 38.50°N, 83.76°WBills Creek — 45.90°N, 86.87°WVauréal — 49.67°N, 63.00°W

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The named rock units Flexicalymene meeki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Flexicalymene meeki and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Flexicalymene meeki and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

366 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Flexicalymene meeki, 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

11 references

Each of the 138 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 content2

Picture of Flexicalymene meeki

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Foerste 1910)