Perissopyge
No picture of Perissopyge 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 Perissopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrilobitaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Perissopyge 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
7 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
5 formations
- Henson Gletscher Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group3
- Paralleldal Formation1
- Sekwi Formation1
- Harkless Formation1
- Ella Island Formation1
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The named rock units Perissopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Perissopyge and its relatives
CambrianWhere Perissopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Salterella2 sites
- Acareorthis1 site
- Agyrekia1 site
- Arrythmocricus1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cambridium1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Fritzolenellus hanseni1 site
- Kutorgina cingulata1 site
- Kyrshabaktella1 site
- Latouchella1 site
- Metaldetes1 site
- Ogygopsis1 site
- Olenellus1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Pelmanella1 site
- Renalcis1 site
- Retilamina1 site
- Robertiolynthus handfieldi1 site
- Stenothecoides1 site
- Trilobita1 site
- Yochelcionella1 site
- Zonacyathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Perissopyge, 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
2 references- Perissopyge (Trilobita) from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of North America and Greenland4
- Perissopyge, a new trilobite from the Lower Cambrian of Greenland and North America3
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Perissopyge 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 Perissopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Perissopyge 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrilobita through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blaker et al. 1996