Flexicalymene retrorsa

Flexicalymene retrorsa

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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 4.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 11 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450.7 Mya445 Mya

11 occurrences of Flexicalymene retrorsa 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

11 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

4 formations

Waynesville — 39.31°N, 84.96°WWaynesville — 39.49°N, 84.06°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 85.20°WWaynesville — 39.41°N, 83.98°WWaynesville — 39.39°N, 83.92°WArnheim — 39.18°N, 84.65°WArnheim — 39.03°N, 83.92°WArnheim — 38.74°N, 85.38°WBull Fork — 38.59°N, 83.59°WBull Fork — 38.93°N, 83.82°WIle aux Couleuvres — 48.51°N, 72.17°W

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

Flexicalymene retrorsa and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Flexicalymene retrorsa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Flexicalymene retrorsa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Flexicalymene retrorsa 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. (Foerste 1910)