Politicurus

Politicurus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
HintzecurinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Hystricuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 483.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 20 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 14 of 20 occurrencesOrdovician490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486.85 Mya483.4 Mya490.7 Mya476.6 Mya

20 occurrences of Politicurus 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

20 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

4 formations

House Limestone — 39.50°N, 113.39°WHouse Limestone — 38.79°N, 113.64°WGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.63°WGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WGoodwin — 39.10°N, 116.26°WHouse — 38.84°N, 113.36°WHouse — 38.70°N, 113.52°W

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

Politicurus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Politicurus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Politicurus, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 Politicurus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itHintzecurinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adrain et al. 2003