Menoparia genalunata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MenopariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 481.7 Mya and 475.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Menoparia genalunata 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
21 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Menoparia genalunata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Menoparia genalunata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Menoparia genalunata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Protopliomerella contracta7 sites
- Asaphellus6 sites
- Psalikilus typicum6 sites
- Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina) quadrata5 sites
- Psalikilus4 sites
- Gladiatoria gladiator3 sites
- Hintzeia celsaora3 sites
- Licnocephala3 sites
- Licnocephala bicornuta3 sites
- Psalikilus spinosum3 sites
- Aulacoparia2 sites
- Aulacoparia (Aulacoparia) venta2 sites
- Basilicus2 sites
- Hintzeia firmimarginis2 sites
- Hormotoma2 sites
- Peltabellia2 sites
- Protopliomerops2 sites
- Psalikilopsis cuspicaudata2 sites
- Scinocephalus solitecti2 sites
- Apatokephalus1 site
- Athenacrinus broweri1 site
- Bathyuridae1 site
- Benthamaspis1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Menoparia genalunata, 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
5 references- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea8
- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas7
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah3
- Trilobite biostratigraphy and revised bases of the Tulean and Blackhillsian Stages of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, western United States2
- Additional Garden City (Early Ordovician) trilobites1
Each of the 21 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Menoparia genalunata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Menoparia genalunata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Menoparia genalunata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1951