Onycopyge
No picture of Onycopyge 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 Onycopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheiruridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.3 Mya to 425 Mya.
3 occurrences of Onycopyge on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Ordovician33%
- Silurian67%
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 Onycopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Onycopyge and its relatives
SilurianWhere Onycopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Bryozoa3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
- Salopina2 sites
- Spiriferida2 sites
- Aegiria1 site
- Alveolitidae1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Aphyllum1 site
- Asaphidae1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Auloporidae1 site
- Batocara1 site
- Belodina compressa1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- Chonetidae1 site
- Cystiphyllum1 site
- Doleroides1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Encrinuraspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Onycopyge, 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
2 referencesEach 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
Media content0
No picture of Onycopyge 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 Onycopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onycopyge 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCheiruridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1880