Peachella

Peachella is an extinct genus of trilobites, fossil marine arthropods, with species of average size. It lived during the Toyonian stage, 516 to 513 million years ago, in what is today the southwestern United States. It can easily be distinguished from other trilobites by its club-like genal spines.

Peachella

Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlenellidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenellidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 21 of 21 occurrencesCambrian515–515 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences515.8 Mya509.2 Mya

21 occurrences of Peachella 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

21 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

3 formations

Carrara — 35.85°N, 116.23°WCarrara — 37.45°N, 115.73°WCarrara — 36.75°N, 117.07°WCarrara — 36.20°N, 116.35°WCarrara — 36.08°N, 116.23°WCarrara — 36.51°N, 116.82°WCarrara — 36.23°N, 116.98°WCarrara — 35.89°N, 116.07°WCarrara — 35.95°N, 116.31°WMule Spring Limestone — 37.32°N, 117.77°WLatham — 34.54°N, 115.48°W

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The named rock units Peachella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Peachella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Peachella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Peachella, 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

5 references

Each of the 21 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

Picture of Peachella

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peachella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOlenellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1910