Papillicalymene

Papillicalymene

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalymenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Calymenidae
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Calymenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Calymenidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Calymenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445.5 Mya422.7 Mya450.2 Mya419 Mya

9 occurrences of Papillicalymene 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

9 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

2 formations

Konovka Suite — 48.53°N, 26.67°EStonington — 45.75°N, 87.02°W

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The named rock units Papillicalymene 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.

Papillicalymene and its relatives

Silurian

Where Papillicalymene and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Papillicalymene, 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 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Papillicalymene

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Papillicalymene 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shirley 1936