Phorocephala pinguimitra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhorocephalaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Phorocephala pinguimitra on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Phorocephala pinguimitra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phorocephala pinguimitra and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phorocephala pinguimitra and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Bumastoides lenzi8 sites
- Apianurus parabarbatus7 sites
- Calyptaulax callirachis7 sites
- Ceraurinella nahanniensis7 sites
- Cybeloides cimelia7 sites
- Dolichoharpes reticulata7 sites
- Holia glabra7 sites
- Remopleurides pattersoni7 sites
- Sphaerexochus arenosus7 sites
- Acanthoparypha evitti6 sites
- Failleana calva6 sites
- Acanthoparypha echinoderma5 sites
- Amphilichas conradi5 sites
- Aparchites5 sites
- Hemiarges turneri5 sites
- Isotelus parvirugosus5 sites
- Nanillaenus aduncus5 sites
- Walencrinuroides rolfi5 sites
- Amphilichas aspratilis4 sites
- Bairdiocypris4 sites
- Bolbopisthia4 sites
- Ceratocephala triacantheis4 sites
- Ceraurinella kingstoni4 sites
- Dimeropyge speyeri4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Phorocephala pinguimitra, 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
3 references- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada6
- Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) trilobites from the Sunblood Formation, District of Mackenzie, Canada1
- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie1
Each of the 8 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 Phorocephala pinguimitra 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 Phorocephala pinguimitra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phorocephala pinguimitra 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 itPhorocephala through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chatterton and Ludvigsen 1976)