Heliopyge

Heliopyge

Blieck, Alain · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AsteropyginaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–378 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya382.31 Mya394 Mya371.6 Mya

16 occurrences of Heliopyge 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

16 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

Portilla — 42.83°N, 5.65°WPortilla — 41.05°N, 3.33°WPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.27°WLanvoy — 48.40°N, 4.48°WRostiviec — 48.40°N, 4.48°WBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°ETraonliors — 48.40°N, 4.48°WMonforte — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMoyuela — 41.13°N, 1.07°WMoulin Liénaux — 50.08°N, 4.56°EKhoshyeilagh — 36.83°N, 55.35°EBovesse — 50.52°N, 4.58°E

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The named rock units Heliopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliopyge and its relatives

Devonian

Where Heliopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Heliopyge, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 Heliopyge

Source
GBIF
Credit
Blieck, Alain
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itAsteropyginae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Haas and Mensink 1970)