Olenellus (Paedeumias)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlenellusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Olenellidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 42 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
49 occurrences of Olenellus (Paedeumias) on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
49 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
9 formations
- Carrara Formation10
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group10
- Pioche Formation9
- Pioche Shale Formation8
- Stissing Formation4
- Harkless Formation3
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The named rock units Olenellus (Paedeumias) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Olenellus (Paedeumias) and its relatives
CambrianWhere Olenellus (Paedeumias) and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Paedeumias transitans18 sites
- Bolbolenellus brevispinus7 sites
- Olenellus gilberti7 sites
- Bristolia6 sites
- Nephrolenellus geniculatus6 sites
- Olenellus nevadensis6 sites
- Mesonacis5 sites
- Olenellus (Olenellus) fowleri5 sites
- Olenellus terminatus5 sites
- Peachella iddingsi4 sites
- Bonnia3 sites
- Ptychoparella3 sites
- Trilobita3 sites
- Acidiscus birdi2 sites
- Acimetopus2 sites
- Analox bipunctata2 sites
- Annelida2 sites
- Anomalocaris2 sites
- Bathydiscus dolichometopus2 sites
- Bathynotus holopygus2 sites
- Biceratops nevadensis2 sites
- Bonnia senecta2 sites
- Calodiscus2 sites
- Calodiscus lobatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Olenellus (Paedeumias), 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
20 references- The Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, southern Labrador and Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland: Lithostratigraphy, trilobites, and depositional setting9
- Biostratigraphy of upper Dyeran strata of the Carrara Formation, Emigrant Pass, Nopah Range, California9
- Microstratigraphy, trilobite biostratinomy, and depositional environment of the “Lower Cambrian” Ruin Wash Lagerstätte, Pioche Formation, Nevada7
- Ontogeny and evolution of the Early Cambrian trilobite genus Nephrolenellus (Olenelloidea)3
- A new Olenellid trilobite, Biceratops nevadensis, from the Lower Cambrian near Las Vegas, Nevada3
- Lower and Middle Cambrian Trilobite Faunas from the Taconic Sequence of New York3
- Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians2
- Systematic revision of the Olenelloidea (Trilobita, Cambrian)1
- Ruin Wash, Chief Range Nevada1
- Oak Springs Summit section, type locality for the base of the Delamaran Stage1
- Terminal Early Cambrian extinction of the Olenellina: documentation from the Pioche Formation, Nevada1
- Fossils of Northwestern Newfoundland and Southeastern Labrador: Conodonts and Trilobites1
Each of the 49 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. 8 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
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No picture of Olenellus (Paedeumias) 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 Olenellus (Paedeumias), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Olenellus (Paedeumias) 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 itOlenellus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1910)