Gog

Gog is a genus of large, flattened asaphid trilobite from the Middle Arenig-aged Svalbard, Valhallfonna Formation, Olenidsletta, Member, of Spitzbergen, Norway, and the Upper Arenig-aged Dawan Formation in Hubei, China.

Gog

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NiobinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 6.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 474.9 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474.9 Mya468 Mya487.4 Mya457.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Gog 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

14 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

Tøyen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 9.97°ETøyen — 59.72°N, 9.85°EDawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°EDawangou — 40.64°N, 79.50°EShirgesht — 34.10°N, 56.80°EValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°ESiliangssu — 33.06°N, 106.63°ETøyen — 58.10°N, 13.70°E

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

Gog and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Gog and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Gog, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 Gog

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No repository was searched for a 3D scan: the genus name is too short to search on without matching most of the record.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNiobinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1975