Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Mucronaspis (Songxites)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Mucronaspis (Songxites)
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 448.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis 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
2 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 Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Aechmina1 site
- Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima1 site
- Appendispinograptus supernus1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Eoleonaspis1 site
- Euprimitia1 site
- Fardenia1 site
- Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus1 site
- Orthograptus1 site
- Oxoplecia1 site
- Paraorthograptus1 site
- Paromalomena1 site
- Platycoryphe1 site
- Primitia1 site
- Rectograptus abbreviatus1 site
- Rectograptus truncatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis, 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
2 references- A deep water shelly fauna from the uppermost Ordovician in northwestern Hunan, South China and its paleoecological implications1
- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mucronaspis (Songxites) wuningensis 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 itMucronaspis (Songxites) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lin 1981)