Goldius

Goldius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScutelluinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 23 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 19 of 23 occurrencesDevonian445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–390 Mya — about 5 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 5 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 5 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438.6 Mya375.2 Mya445 Mya371 Mya

23 occurrences of Goldius on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

23 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

10 formations

Jemelle — 50.07°N, 4.61°EJemelle — 50.16°N, 5.26°EJemelle — 50.05°N, 4.47°EJemelle — 49.98°N, 4.70°EHanonet — 50.09°N, 5.18°EHanonet — 50.06°N, 4.50°EReynales — 43.17°N, 77.63°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WReynales — 43.26°N, 77.06°WOhle — 51.29°N, 8.04°EOhle — 51.28°N, 8.08°ETrois-Fontaines — 50.12°N, 4.84°EBaton River — 40.00°S, 174.00°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.15°EAhrdorf — 50.22°N, 6.70°ECouvin — 50.05°N, 4.52°EBicken-Ense — 50.71°N, 8.18°E

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The named rock units Goldius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goldius and its relatives

Devonian

Where Goldius and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Goldius, 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

14 references

Each of the 23 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Goldius

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goldius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itScutelluinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. deKoninck 1841