Pseudomera

Pseudomera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 488.9 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 93 occurrencesOrdovician — about 93 of 93 occurrencesOrdovician490–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 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 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 10 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 15 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 6 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 5 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 5 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences471.3 Mya – 468 Mya489.5 Mya456.7 Mya

93 occurrences of Pseudomera 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

93 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

20 formations

Antelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 38.05°N, 116.45°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 36.65°N, 116.17°WAntelope Valley — 36.93°N, 117.16°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°WTable Point — 50.70°N, 57.41°WTable Point — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Point — 49.38°N, 57.73°WSunblood — 62.52°N, 124.78°WSunblood — 62.18°N, 126.70°WSunblood — 61.20°N, 125.78°WWah Wah — 38.85°N, 113.46°WOil Creek — 34.35°N, 97.04°WOil Creek — 34.36°N, 97.14°WOil Creek — 34.43°N, 97.35°WTable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Cove — 50.18°N, 57.62°WBadger Flat — 36.94°N, 118.07°WJuab — 39.18°N, 113.50°WKanosh Shale — 38.78°N, 113.59°WKanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WWahwah Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WWahwah Limestone — 39.17°N, 112.17°WNinemile — 37.30°N, 115.80°WNinemile — 37.34°N, 115.38°WIltyk — 68.00°N, 88.82°EUgorskii — 60.00°N, 118.00°EWahwah — 39.18°N, 113.50°WGarden City — 42.93°N, 111.25°WJuab Limestone — 38.85°N, 113.46°WSwan Peak — 41.74°N, 111.83°WJoins — 34.43°N, 97.35°WRomaine — 50.20°N, 63.92°WLower Head — 49.82°N, 54.09°W

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The named rock units Pseudomera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudomera and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudomera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Pseudomera, 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

26 references

Each of the 93 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. 14 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 Pseudomera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holliday 1942