Prionocheilus

Searched as Prionocheilus pulcher parapulcher. The Paleobiology Database treats Prionocheilus as the accepted name.

Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius), a relative of Prionocheilus — not Prionocheilus itself

Not Prionocheilus. This is Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius), a relative.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Prionocheilus 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

1 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

1 formation

Shihtzupu — 27.76°N, 106.92°E

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

Prionocheilus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Prionocheilus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,787 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 179 sites for Prionocheilus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Prionocheilus 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 itPharostomatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rouault 1847