Flexicalymene planimarginata

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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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–455 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457.2 Mya449.2 Mya458.7 Mya448.3 Mya

10 occurrences of Flexicalymene planimarginata 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

10 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

7 formations

Cwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WDwyfach — 52.90°N, 4.09°WDwyfach — 52.94°N, 4.29°WGrange Allen — 53.17°N, 6.92°WHorderly Sandstone — 52.47°N, 2.86°WShalloch — 55.25°N, 4.85°WPont-y-ceunant — 52.93°N, 4.03°WAllt-Tair-Ffynnon — 52.75°N, 3.20°W

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

Flexicalymene planimarginata and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

99 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Flexicalymene planimarginata, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Flexicalymene planimarginata 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 Flexicalymene planimarginata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Flexicalymene planimarginata 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. (Reed 1906)