Onychopyge sculptura
No picture of Onychopyge sculptura 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 sculptura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychopygePBDB
- 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 most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Onychopyge sculptura 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Onychopyge sculptura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Onychopyge sculptura and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Onychopyge sculptura and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Angelina hyeronimi3 sites
- Asaphellus communis3 sites
- Micragnostus pehuenchensis3 sites
- Shumardia alata3 sites
- Cordylodus angulatus2 sites
- Bienvillia grandis1 site
- Cordylodus proavus1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eobucania mexicana1 site
- Gothodus1 site
- Hyolithia indet.1 site
- Leptoplastides marianus1 site
- Oneotodus1 site
- Parabolina argentina1 site
- Parabolinella tumifrons1 site
- Parabolinella variabilis1 site
- Pelagielloidea1 site
- Phakelodus tenuis1 site
- Saukia globosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Onychopyge sculptura, 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 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Onychopyge sculptura 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 sculptura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onychopyge sculptura was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itOnychopyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968