Ogyginus

Ogyginus is an extinct genus of asaphid trilobites that lived during the Ordovician period. Commonly found in Wales. The type specimen was first described by Murchison in 1839 as Asaphus corndensis, though the species was later reassigned.

Ogyginus

Daderot · CC0 · 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
AsaphidaePBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 475.3 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 481.7 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician482–481 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 1 occurrence476–475 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475.3 Mya461 Mya482.2 Mya457.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Ogyginus 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

17 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

11 formations

Grès Armoricain — 48.00°N, 1.00°WGrès Armoricain — 47.73°N, 1.59°WGrès Armoricain — 48.20°N, 0.02°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.67°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.77°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WAcoite — 24.00°S, 66.00°WSepulturas — 23.00°S, 66.00°WValongo — 41.00°N, 8.00°WUpper Fezouata — 31.38°N, 4.17°WSan José — 13.32°S, 70.30°WLlanfawr Mudstone — 52.24°N, 3.36°WGilwern Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.38°W

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The named rock units Ogyginus 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.

Ogyginus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ogyginus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Ogyginus, 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

12 references

Each of the 17 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 Ogyginus

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Daderot
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CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ogyginus 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.

The description on this site

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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 itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1912