Onychopyge

No picture of Onychopyge 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 Onychopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratopygidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ceratopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 454 Mya.

Cambrian — about 12 of 34 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 22 of 34 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 1 occurrence495–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–492 Mya — about 1 occurrence492–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 3 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 3 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya458.2 Mya497.9 Mya453.1 Mya

34 occurrences of Onychopyge 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

34 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

10 formations

Volcancito — 28.87°S, 67.75°WVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.69°WSanta Rosita — 23.00°S, 66.00°WSanta Rosita — 22.18°S, 65.26°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WLampazar — 23.88°S, 65.71°WLampazar — 23.62°S, 65.69°WTinu — 17.47°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 96.57°WGuanacuna — 22.00°S, 65.00°WXilinkebo — 42.00°N, 101.00°EYeLi — 42.00°N, 126.00°ECasa Colorada — 23.58°S, 65.35°WDigger Island — 38.81°S, 146.04°EIscayachi — 21.51°S, 64.80°W

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The named rock units Onychopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Onychopyge and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Onychopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Onychopyge, 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

14 references

Each of the 34 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. 2 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

Media content0

No picture of Onychopyge 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 Onychopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Onychopyge 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 itCeratopygidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington 1938