Phacopidella

Phacopidella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhacopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 33 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 33 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 20 of 33 occurrencesDevonian462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 1 occurrence432–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–424 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences417–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences402–399 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences397–394 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 6 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 7 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences459.7 Mya393.47 Mya462 Mya386 Mya

33 occurrences of Phacopidella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

33 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

14 formations

Chotec — 50.08°N, 14.43°EChotec — 49.50°N, 14.33°EChefar el Ahmar — 30.08°N, 2.24°WMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EReynales — 43.20°N, 77.62°WReynales — 43.23°N, 77.33°WMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°ERockway — 43.15°N, 77.06°WStinava-Chabicov — 49.85°N, 17.52°ESchistes de Morgat — 48.25°N, 4.47°WFonte da Horta — 41.00°N, 8.00°WRahal Shale — 34.03°N, 6.85°WAkrech — 33.23°N, 5.62°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WIrondequoit — 43.23°N, 76.98°WStyliolinenkalke — 51.97°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Phacopidella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phacopidella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Phacopidella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Phacopidella, 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

15 references

Each of the 33 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Phacopidella

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Phacopidella 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 itPhacopidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1905