Olenus intermedius
Not Olenus intermedius. This is Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius), a relative.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlenusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Olenus intermedius 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
1 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.
Olenus intermedius and its relatives
CambrianWhere Olenus intermedius and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Parabolina cylindrica1 site
- Parabolinites qilianensis1 site
- Proceratopyge1 site
- Proceratopyge insuetus1 site
- Protopeltura1 site
- Qilianaspis qinghaiensis1 site
- Solenoparia minlensis1 site
- Solenopleura qinghaiensis1 site
- Suyougouia granulosa1 site
- Westergaardites qinghaiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Olenus intermedius, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itOlenus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chu et al. 1979