Palaeolenus douvillei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeolenusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Palaeolenidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Palaeolenus douvillei 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
14 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Palaeolenus douvillei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeolenus douvillei and its relatives
CambrianWhere Palaeolenus douvillei and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Redlichia7 sites
- Vetulicola6 sites
- Diandongia pista5 sites
- Acrothele4 sites
- Lingulellotreta malongensis4 sites
- Isoxys minor3 sites
- Linevitus2 sites
- Palaeolenus longispinus2 sites
- Tuzoia sinensis2 sites
- Branchiocaris1 site
- Gangtoucunia aspera1 site
- Guangweicaris spinatus1 site
- Heliomedusa1 site
- Houcaris saron1 site
- Kootenia bolis1 site
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa1 site
- Liangshanella liangshanensis1 site
- Longquania bispinosa1 site
- Nisusia1 site
- Palaeoscolex1 site
- Panlongia spinosa1 site
- Panlongia tetranodusa1 site
- Redlichia kaiyangensis1 site
- Shifangia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Palaeolenus douvillei, 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
4 references- Luo et al., 200810
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China2
- Soft tissues of the trilobite Palaeolenus douvillei from the early Cambrian Guanshan Biota, South China1
- Sedimentary environment and trilobites of Lower Cambrian Yuxiansi Formation in Leshan District, Sichuan1
Each of the 14 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. 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Palaeolenus sp. · NWU:ELI:4244
No picture of Palaeolenus douvillei 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 Palaeolenus douvillei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPalaeolenus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansuy 1912