Pricyclopyge

Pricyclopyge is a genus of trilobites assigned to the family Cyclopygidae that occurs throughout the Ordovician. Pricyclopyge had an extratropical distribution, and there is evidence that it lived in darker parts of the water column. Pricyclopyge has huge eyes, an inverted pear-shaped glabella, six thorax segments, with on the 3rd two small discs. Pricyclopyge is known from what are today China, the Czech Republic, France, and the United Kingdom.

Pricyclopyge

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PricyclopyginaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician — about 28 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477.1 Mya461 Mya487.4 Mya457.6 Mya

28 occurrences of Pricyclopyge 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

28 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

12 formations

Llanfallteg — 52.00°N, 5.00°WLlanfallteg — 51.82°N, 4.48°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.65°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.77°WLlanfallteg — 51.85°N, 4.92°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETøyen — 59.92°N, 10.78°EDobrotivá — 50.10°N, 14.34°ETankerville — 53.00°N, 3.00°WPontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°ESchistes d'Angers — 47.52°N, 0.67°WPierre-Meliere — 47.41°N, 1.38°WLatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EMilina — 49.77°N, 13.80°ETastau — 44.51°N, 70.33°E

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The named rock units Pricyclopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pricyclopyge and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pricyclopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pricyclopyge, 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

14 references

Each of the 28 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. 2 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 Pricyclopyge

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pricyclopyge 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richter and Richter 1954