Perissopyge phenax
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PerissopygePBDB
- 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 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Perissopyge phenax 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
5 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
- Henson Gletscher Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group3
- Paralleldal Formation1
- Sekwi Formation1
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The named rock units Perissopyge phenax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Perissopyge phenax and its relatives
CambrianWhere Perissopyge phenax and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Acareorthis1 site
- Agyrekia1 site
- Cambridium1 site
- Kutorgina cingulata1 site
- Latouchella1 site
- Pelmanella1 site
- Salterella1 site
- Yochelcionella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Perissopyge phenax, 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, a new trilobite from the Lower Cambrian of Greenland and North America3
- Perissopyge (Trilobita) from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of North America and Greenland2
Each of the 5 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.
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No picture of Perissopyge phenax was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 phenax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Perissopyge phenax 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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What may have been alongside itPerissopyge through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blaker et al. 1996