Flexicalymene onniensis
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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 most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453 Mya and 449.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Flexicalymene onniensis 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
34 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
4 formations
- Dufton Shales Formation29
- Cautley Mudstone Formation3
- Onny Formation · Alternata Group1
- Dufton Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Flexicalymene onniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Flexicalymene onniensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Flexicalymene onniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Chonetoidea iduna27 sites
- Onniella broeggeri27 sites
- Tretaspis kiaeri20 sites
- Atractopyge9 sites
- Lonchodomas pennatus9 sites
- Cybeloides loveni8 sites
- Sowerbyella8 sites
- Onnia7 sites
- Gravicalymene5 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus4 sites
- Calyptaulax norvegicus3 sites
- Duftonia3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Platylichas laxatus3 sites
- Brongniartella2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Diacalymene2 sites
- Holopea2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Tretaspis ceriodes2 sites
- Calymene marginata1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Dalmanitina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Flexicalymene onniensis, 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
4 references- The stratigraphy of the Caradoc series in the Cross Fell Inlier17
- Trinucleid trilobites from the higher Dufton shales of the Caradoc series in the Cross Fell inlier12
- The Upper Ordovician Trilobites from the Cautley and Dent Districts of Westmorland and Yorkshire3
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway, 27. Trilobites of the Family Calymenidae2
Each of the 34 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 content0
No picture of Flexicalymene onniensis 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 Flexicalymene onniensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Flexicalymene onniensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itFlexicalymene through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shirley 1936)